Re: RTFM apology

--- "Neil Truby" <ntruby@netcomuk.co.uk> > wrote: >> >> >Do you know what a petard is? >> >> >> >>A domesticated aardvark? >> >> >> >>It's a conical iron container filled with gunpowder used to blow open >the >> >>gates of a castle or walled enclosure (fortress, city, etc.). I believe >the >> >>proper term is hoist ON my own petard (paraphrase from Hamlet I >believe). >> > >> 'What is a petard, Mr. Trebek?' should follow the more serious answer. >> >> I can spell 4GL > >You can't spell "Truby" though. Actually, Mr. Trubly, I was referring to Alex Trebek, host of Jeopardy. >Anyway, it's what the Clown said it was >(the gunpowder container). Hey, Nell. I was the one who offered the definition, not O. T. Clown. He just said it wasn't a purty sight. >It's derived from the French word to fart. I >think the quotation should be "... with one's own petard". Wow! That was some explosion! Like French Flatulence. Let's call this thing a petard! Makes that scene at the castle wall just a bit more ominous, "I petard in your general direction!" == Maintainer of the procrastinator's FAQ. Well, maybe tomorrow I will be. _____________________________________________________________ Want a new web-based email account ? ---> http://www.firstlinux.net

Carlos Benjamin <benj@firstlinux.net> wrote in message news:8mrnag$1cd$1@news.xmission.com...> >> Actually, Mr. Trubly, I was referring to Alex Trebek, host of Jeopardy. Well, you still can't spell "Truby". Unless that was irony. But no, you're American! > Wow! That was some explosion! Like French Flatulence. Let's call this thing a petard! To be pedantic, a "p'tard".