Just to be pedantic, it’s “Hoist by one’s own petard”. But the verb “Hoise” in this sentence has nothing to do with hoisting (as with a rope). It’s one of those obscure words that only survives in this one expression (It means to be hurt).
March 23, 2015 at 9:02 am
JTC
Just to be further pedantic, it’s “Hoist with one’s own petard”. But if your source material is Willie S., it’s “the enginer hoist by his own petar”. Petard being an engine (bomb), and engineers being engine makers. And we know who the engineer in the DBD world is, so…
March 23, 2015 at 9:39 am
markm
If the petard (a primitive bomb in a canister) was buried to blow out the foundation of a wall, then a premature explosion would literally blow the engineer _up_. Maybe “hoist” originally referred to that, but when the technology improved, petards were quite often attached to a gate to blast it open, and “hoist by ones own petard” was extended to mean any injury from the bomb one was planting.
March 23, 2015 at 2:46 pm
Wayne M
I’ve always assumed the expression meant as expressed in the definition of hoise but never looked it up before. In fact, I thought the verb was foist rather than hoist!
Another factoid for my collection of word trivia…
March 22, 2015 at 11:23 pm
Blue Quasar
Snake tastes like snake. It does not taste like chicken. But it ain’t bad.
March 22, 2015 at 11:36 pm
Charles
Tasted like chicken to me, but being deep-fried may have had something to do with that.
March 22, 2015 at 11:28 pm
Greg B
And its a lot tougher than chicken. At least the one I cooked was.
Of course, I’m no expert on grilling rattler.
Well, I did put up a link to rattlesnake recipes a couple of days ago.
March 23, 2015 at 2:45 am
Greg B
Heh.
Only about 25 years too late.
March 22, 2015 at 11:46 pm
Wayne M
Ah, the progressive anthem “Hush, Go! Nothing to See Here!”
March 22, 2015 at 11:57 pm
B Woodman
Sometimes the “progressive anthem” IS appropriate – but only with little children.
But NOT with adults.
Ka’peesh?
March 23, 2015 at 2:50 pm
Wayne M
Perhaps that is why it is the progressive anthem? It takes childlike thinking to embrace the progressive dogma thus progressive leadership has to use the level of words their adherents might understand…
March 23, 2015 at 5:38 am
Bill G
It doesn’t seem like Wade was trying to hide anything, he just has his own term for food he cooks.
As a proper liberal Skye was willing to grab, but not willing to be seen and thus did not get any further information.
March 23, 2015 at 6:05 am
MasterDiver
Poogan’s Porch in Charleston does a similar thing with ‘gator. Deep fried nuggets that are very tasty. Not exactly like chicken, but similar to most game birds.
March 23, 2015 at 8:29 am
Dread
I LOVE Poogan’s gumbo!
March 23, 2015 at 7:49 am
PaulS
Snake sneaking snake.
Sounds like a sningles ad.
March 23, 2015 at 4:09 pm
JTC
It often riles me that a perfectly positive and cromulent term “progressive”, is co-opted to its opposite intent by regressive socialists who are happy to take for “free” what others pay or take blame for (in this case an innocent child)…only to find much too late for themselves and those they have taken from, that there ain’t no free lunch. Never has been, never will be.
And yet the lure to the weak of mind and will is strong enough that we are near certain to perpetuate the myth to our ultimate descent and demise. For we will christen Clinton the next and possibly the last, czar of the good old USSA (United Socialist States of America).
March 23, 2015 at 9:31 pm
B Woodman
As Robert Heinlein put it in “The Moon Is A Harsh Mistress”, TANSTAAFL.
March 23, 2015 at 5:43 pm
Pamela
I wonder if Skye is one of those people that will get bad gas after eating snake?
March 23, 2015 at 8:26 pm
Andrew Benghazi
I’m wondering if she’s gonna spew or worse?
March 23, 2015 at 9:37 pm
B Woodman
Hopefully NOT on the sheriff.
“I spewed the sheriff, but I did not puke the deputy. . . ”
(with all due apologies to Eric Clapton)
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Hopefully, the Sheriff won’t frak on the first date!
HA! Caught! Snake (sneak) handed. Hoisted by her own petard.
Hope she doesn’t do a Richard Nixon all over the good sheriff.
On second thought. . . . .
I think you meant a GHW Bush.
Sorry. My apologies.
(Now where did I misplace that sword?)
Just to be pedantic, it’s “Hoist by one’s own petard”. But the verb “Hoise” in this sentence has nothing to do with hoisting (as with a rope). It’s one of those obscure words that only survives in this one expression (It means to be hurt).
Just to be further pedantic, it’s “Hoist with one’s own petard”. But if your source material is Willie S., it’s “the enginer hoist by his own petar”. Petard being an engine (bomb), and engineers being engine makers. And we know who the engineer in the DBD world is, so…
If the petard (a primitive bomb in a canister) was buried to blow out the foundation of a wall, then a premature explosion would literally blow the engineer _up_. Maybe “hoist” originally referred to that, but when the technology improved, petards were quite often attached to a gate to blast it open, and “hoist by ones own petard” was extended to mean any injury from the bomb one was planting.
I’ve always assumed the expression meant as expressed in the definition of hoise but never looked it up before. In fact, I thought the verb was foist rather than hoist!
Another factoid for my collection of word trivia…
Snake tastes like snake. It does not taste like chicken. But it ain’t bad.
Tasted like chicken to me, but being deep-fried may have had something to do with that.
And its a lot tougher than chicken. At least the one I cooked was.
Of course, I’m no expert on grilling rattler.
Well, I did put up a link to rattlesnake recipes a couple of days ago.
Heh.
Only about 25 years too late.
Ah, the progressive anthem “Hush, Go! Nothing to See Here!”
Sometimes the “progressive anthem” IS appropriate – but only with little children.
But NOT with adults.
Ka’peesh?
Perhaps that is why it is the progressive anthem? It takes childlike thinking to embrace the progressive dogma thus progressive leadership has to use the level of words their adherents might understand…
It doesn’t seem like Wade was trying to hide anything, he just has his own term for food he cooks.
As a proper liberal Skye was willing to grab, but not willing to be seen and thus did not get any further information.
Poogan’s Porch in Charleston does a similar thing with ‘gator. Deep fried nuggets that are very tasty. Not exactly like chicken, but similar to most game birds.
I LOVE Poogan’s gumbo!
Snake sneaking snake.
Sounds like a sningles ad.
It often riles me that a perfectly positive and cromulent term “progressive”, is co-opted to its opposite intent by regressive socialists who are happy to take for “free” what others pay or take blame for (in this case an innocent child)…only to find much too late for themselves and those they have taken from, that there ain’t no free lunch. Never has been, never will be.
And yet the lure to the weak of mind and will is strong enough that we are near certain to perpetuate the myth to our ultimate descent and demise. For we will christen Clinton the next and possibly the last, czar of the good old USSA (United Socialist States of America).
As Robert Heinlein put it in “The Moon Is A Harsh Mistress”, TANSTAAFL.
I wonder if Skye is one of those people that will get bad gas after eating snake?
I’m wondering if she’s gonna spew or worse?
Hopefully NOT on the sheriff.
“I spewed the sheriff, but I did not puke the deputy. . . ”
(with all due apologies to Eric Clapton)