The pathological liar "Timothy C. May" <tcmay@got.net> writes:
At 11:50 AM -0800 9/29/96, jim bell wrote:
At 10:00 AM 9/29/96 -0800, Timothy C. May wrote:
(Hoist by their own petards indeed! Don't tell our Russian what petard means.)
Uh, wasn't that the name of the bald captain on Star Trek Next Generation? You know, "Jean-Luc Petard"?
Picard. To keep people out of suspense, "hoist by one's own petard" has one etymology involving a lift-off by gaseous action (though the more family-oriented dictionaries cite a petard as a French rocket of some sort, ignoring the point that the name comes from this same gaseus emission).
OK. Igor, petard is the explosive device that Timmy May likes to stick up his rectum in order to dervie sexual pleasure. He should discuss it on his favorite Usenet newsgroup, alt.sex.masturbation, and not on a crypto-related mailing list. --- Dr.Dimitri Vulis KOTM Brighton Beach Boardwalk BBS, Forest Hills, N.Y.: +1-718-261-2013, 14.4Kbps