There are those occasional human-interest stories that brighten your day -- for example, a den of Hezbollah terrorists accidentally blowing themselves up in their basement. It's tragic not having C-Span here in Kiev, because I think I would have had a similar warm feeling watching the last Democratic debate.
It must have been a schadenfreude-fest watching Sharpton mau-mau Howard Dean over minority hiring. After years of Democrats using the race card to bash Republicans, what sweet irony for it to burn their own front-runner.
Posted by Discoshaman at janvier 14, 2004 01:38 AM | TrackBack
Sometime for laughs look up the etymology of 'petard'.
Posted by: Paul Baxter at janvier 14, 2004 12:38 AMHey...thanks John
Posted by: at janvier 14, 2004 04:54 AMReally, Paul?
I only know it as a line from Hamlet referring to the mines they used to knock down castle walls. It made for nice symmetry with the Hezbollah thing. What's the derivation of the word?
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You're welcome! :)
Posted by: Discoshaman at janvier 14, 2004 09:09 PMWell, given its derived meaning as used in Hamlet (as opposed to ist literal meaning, which I won't touch, but you can Google if you must) you can't really be hoist "on" it, you can be either hoist "with" it or "by" it.
Posted by: pentamom at janvier 16, 2004 04:23 AMI just looked up the etymology. You guys were being delicate about THAT? I think that's sweet. . . in a Victorian sort of way. ;-)
Posted by: Discoshaman at janvier 17, 2004 04:37 AMI wasn't trying to be delicate, I just wanted you to have the fun I did in finding out what it meant.
Posted by: Paul Baxter at janvier 17, 2004 10:27 PMHeh. I WAS surprised by it. :) Leave it to the delicate and refined French to come up with a name like that...
Posted by: Discoshaman at janvier 18, 2004 04:24 AM