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Caught Out

🕑 Added 2018-06-25 00:45:10 +0000 UTC

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Keisi

I see you too have read the age of empires 2 manual

Briar 💜

Claire is me

Bruce Steinberg

Which in turn comes from explosive flatuence.

Diptych

Not surprising. Hamlet also had country matters. And Midsummer Night's Dream had a man called Bottom who's turned into an ass. Shakespeare had Butts Disease bad.

Olivier Laroche

Pétard is just french for firecracker

Danya Michael

Also bear in mind that the idiom was popularized (if not invented) by Shakespeare, in Hamlet. Hamlet has fart jokes.

Danya Michael

Also then it might actually be funny

Carl

Because then it wouldn't be a a thinly veiled excuse to encourage its viewers to point and laugh at the nerds to feel better about themselves.

Unanimous D

Why can't Big Bang Theory be like this?

Peter Jensen

Gives a whole different, sinister meaning to "I fart in your general direction". Not that the literal meaning is all that benign.

Ben Russell-Gough

No, that only happens to Q.

Rudolph Gerber

Now go away or we will taunt you another time-a

Dean Reilly

This is the kind of sophisticated humour for which the French are famous.

Patrick Jackson

Jousted by mine own Picard :-/

Matthew Foweraker

Hehe. Fart joke. No, seriously, a petard is named after farts. This makes this a fart joke.

Ben Russell-Gough

So, it's basically a fart joke, which explains why Jeph knows the word.

Rob Scott

Yeah, petards are da bomb...

Ben Russell-Gough

There is a reason why the people of Europe have an instinct to twitch and back away when someone in authority asks for a volunteer. It's a race memory of things like this.

Ben Russell-Gough

I've got a feeling that the teen years at Casa Augustus were pretty much continual bickering between those two! I'm really getting into Clinton and Claire's relationship - Bickering, loving and completely open; they're probably both be mired in their personality problems if they didn't have their sibling to shamelessly call them out about them!

Bagge

Clinton is chill

Stoodmuffin

I'm sure my brother and I have had similar conversations

Fart Captor

Petards are where we get this from: 💣 Turns out that a grenade with a really inaccurate fuse is a really bad idea

ducksauz

I sense a case of Butts Disease in this thread.

Diptych

Yeah, it's a farting bomb. Expelling all its force in one direction.

Paul Cantrell

Yes, really.

Paul Cantrell

Etymology: mid 16th century: from French pétard, from péter ‘break wind’.

Ol' Firebones

Well, I got it *almost* correct from memory. <a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hoist_with_his_own_petard" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hoist_with_his_own_petard</a>

Ol' Firebones

'Tis a sport for the enginer to be hoist on his own petard.

The problem with a petard wasn't so much the bomb itself. The problem was the fuse. A fuse set for "Oh, a minute or so" might go off in 60 seconds. Or it could go in 15 or 20 seconds. Or it could just go out. So... The victim is carrying his bomb and running like hell towards the gates. The marksmen on the walls, seeing him running up, start peppering the crackpot with crack potshots. But he survives, drops the bomb, turns to run, and the 60 second fuse was really 27 seconds and the bomb just ruins his day. Not to mention his armor.

MiqoRems

Good rule of thumb is that if you can't be sure whether or not it's offensive, it probably is.

DROID 06 NEED LOVE TOO. ENTER HUG ZONE AT OWN RISK!

Wiki

"Hoist with his own petard" is a Shakespearean idiom from Hamlet meaning "to cause the bomb maker to be blown up with his own bomb". A petard is a small bomb used for blowing up gates and walls when breaching ...

Diptych

He goes very Peanuts.

Mandy Hoskins

I love these dorks.

And he's even wearing the glove Bubbles and Faye told him to get!

Clinton sizes up the goal... He Shoots! And he scores!

R L

HOISTED (Clearly I didn't read the alt before contributing here)

Peter McDevitt

I had a pun in mind concerning the phrase "acting petarded" but I can't be sure if that's offensive or not...

Joseph Houk

Petards = IED's.

Matt Grayson

DROID 06 TRY TO BE DORK.

Cody Renton

I thought it was like a spear or something

Chris Hewson

I just looked it up, and apparently petards are a kind of bomb?! I always assumed they were like suspenders, hence how you could be 'hoisted by your own petard'. I'm not really sure how an explosion can hoist you. I wonder where that phase came from! haha