A Viscous Attack 🤣

[GarlicStyle]

OK, I know it's a really easy mistake to make. It's just that every time I read this - more and more frequently - my mind conjures something like this. Enjoy!

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Cattery, don’t you mean by one off of a scout?

Yikes! Hoist by my own petard (whatever that means). Yes, buy. Mea culpa x

@GarlicStyle this made me laugh out loud in the brake room at work But then again, may be I had one to many expressoes and was all hiped up!

I love that Alot, @wandawaves. Thanks (Alot)!

I thought I'd make another add hock contribution. This one appears ad nauseum off of the school secetary.

My friend sent me this and I thought of this thread!

It’s not that this thread is loosing momentum per say but yes when I read these things I’m nauseous

Nicked off of another fred.

I'll fight to the back teeth for... [insert cause of choice]

This threads give me a wail of a dime but I've got work to do. I guess that's the flying ointment.

It's a doggy dog world and no mistake

Just seen a comment on another thread about procouscous children

Was it you who was pleased to hear the children like couscous? 😂

No but I enjoyed the comment!

Literally, it means lifted of the ground by a fart.
From the french (who else), ‘petard’ is derived from pet, or a fart (old french, nowadays pétarade). Apparently, it relates to small bombs, often called petards, which only did a small amount of damage, a bit of lifting of dirt and debris... The bomb-maker is blown ("hoist", the past tense of "hoise") off the ground by his own bomb ("petard"), and indicates an ironic reversal or poetic justice

I wish my children were procouscous. Couscous-neutral is the best I've been able to do.

Anti-couscous here, alas. Have failed as a parent.

But... that's correct isn't it? I'm confused myself now! Or should I say contused

It means blown up by your own explosive device.

A petard is a historical term for a small bomb used to breach walls or gates, or a firecracker.

In the expression, it refers to the former. The devices had very short fuses and the chances of any soldier fixing one to its target getting blown up in the ensuing explosion were fairly high.

That's what the PP above said, though.

Péter in modern French is to fart. Petard (as in the explosive) comes from the same root.

A petard did more than "a small amount of damage, a bit of lifting of dirt and debris". Each one contained between 5 and 6 pounds, so 2 to 3 kilograms, of gunpowder.

They were designed to blow holes in solid walls and gates. Anyone caught in the explosion would be blown sky high, not just off his feet.

Referring to a fart in the name was a piece of typical military gallows humour.

Thank you! I had to re--read mine to check!

Just returning with this post from a nearby bakery:
"Unfortunately, the shop will be closed today. This is due to short staff."
I wanted to ask if their assistants were having trouble seeing over the counter, but somebody beat me to it!

Oh, just read on another thread someone talking about the "pet fools" of having a teenager with alcohol issues at their wedding. I had to think about it before I realised she meant pitfalls....

Quite a worse case scenario there. That teen must have been three sheeps to the wind, like a bowl in a china shop. I bet the OP wished they hadn’t RSPCA’d to that wedding invite.