The term "hoist by your own petard" comes to mind?:rolleyes:Quote:
Originally Posted by Wongo
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The term "hoist by your own petard" comes to mind?:rolleyes:Quote:
Originally Posted by Wongo
http://www.plates.co.nz/plates/temp/...6302a8efae.jpgQuote:
Originally Posted by Lignum
You want it. Send me $400 and I'll put it in the post mate....:wink: Really....
Actually, it is “be hoist with your own petard”. :2tsup: :DQuote:
Originally Posted by Big Shed
There's letters seal'd: and my two schoolfellows,
Whom I will trust as I will adders fang'd,
They bear the mandate; they must sweep my way
And marshal me to knavery. Let it work;
For 'tis the sport to have the enginer
Hoist with his own petar; and 't shall go hard
But I will delve one yard below their mines
And blow them at the moon: O, 'tis most sweet,
When in one line two crafts directly meet.
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Originally Posted by Wongo
Sorry a temporary highjack............ that new ad on TV (NSW) about speeders having small penises.
Boy that add offends me ...............not cause I have a small one..... I just like to go fast...:D
Honestly though, that ad would have to of been designed by women surely.......... What about all the bad women drivers out there......What is their excuse?:roll:
Don't want to be pedantic, that's what I first put down. Then I did a Google and the consensus seems to be "by" not "with".Quote:
Originally Posted by Cliff Rogers
But I am always ready to bow to superior knowledge:D
This makes an interesting comparison
It's 'have', BT, 'have to have been'. Tsk! :rolleyes:Quote:
Honestly though, that ad would have to of been designed by women surely
It was originally coined by Shakespeare in Hamlet as 'with' but people seem to say 'by'.Quote:
the consensus seems to be "by" not "with"
BTW did you know that petard (a small French bomb - no not a Peugeot) comes from the French for passing wind?
Silent, see above link.
You might want to have another go at that....
Well if you're going to split hairs, I'm going to...........
Sorry, should work now.Quote:
Originally Posted by silentC
Arh well you see.... I did a cut & paste into word to see what you were on about & it was the Encart UK dictionary that said the term was “be hoist with your own petard”.Quote:
Originally Posted by Big Shed
If you stick it into a google search, you get heaps of variations & several sites reckon that petar in SC's verse was actually from the old French peter & meant to break wind. :?
You also get a whole different set of results if you search for “be hoist with your own petard” or 'be hoist with your own petard'. :rolleyes:
Petard, or petar is the name for a small mine used to blow up gates and such. The name comes from a Latin word meaning 'to pass wind' (fart). The bomb was only small by bomb standards.
Shakespeare was definitely talking about one of these, because he says "For 'tis the sport to have the enginer, Hoist with his own petar;". An engineer was the guy who set up the bomb. He then goes on to say "But I will delve one yard below their mines, And blow them at the moon:". I think that clinches it.
It is a metaphorical allusion to a person being caught in their own trap, or being undone by the very plan with which they themselves intended to undo someone else. Blown up by your own bomb.
Far more interesting that trying to set up a new employee in Quickbooks, that is for sure. :D
They're fat?:DQuote:
Originally Posted by Bleedin Thumb
Back to numberplates...
A couple of years ago I met a bloke who had just inherited the NSW plate '1'.
He lived in Qld, and if he didn't live in NSW he would have to have surrendered it. As it just happenned, he had been looking at moving to NSW anyway, when along came a developer and offered him megabucks for his Qld. property.
Talk about some people having all the luck ( although I suspect he made a lot of it himself.)
I saw Tony Robinson in one of his "Worst Jobs in History" shows being a petard carrier.
It certainly looked like a pretty ordinary job to me. He even mentioned that one of the (very many) hazards of the job was being "hoist by ones own" if it went off prematurely due to the inferior wick technology of the time.
It amazes me that any of them ever made it to the gates at all.
Back to the number plates again.
I saw one recently (don't remember the actual letters): "P51-ABC" on a Ford Mustang. The format is standard for ordinary plates in Florida, but the "P51" seemed too good to be coincidence. (P51 Mustang was a WW2 fighter plane.)
Another one: A woman biker on a Harley: "HARLOT". The Department of Motor Vehicles has a list of forbidden words, but I guess this one wasn't on the list.
Joe
What's interesting is that we've got a raft of rat's ringers (no surprise there! :rolleyes: ) and a few who hate them. There's also a load of comment about different plates people have seen and a (mildly) interesting diversion on the subject of small French bermbs and farts. :oo:
BUT - the 7 blokes who have personalised plates still haven't said why they've got them.
Col the Continuing Curious
Low self esteem :D
I know why :DQuote:
Originally Posted by Driver
I have personalised plates- just my initials and numbers. They were given to me as present. At least it makes it easy to remember my number plate when I check in to a motel and they seem to wan't my plate no on the registration.Quote:
Originally Posted by Driver
Jeez mate, if you have trouble remembering your number plate, how do you get on with all those drugs and symptoms and all that doctor stuff? :o
Our personalized plates cost $15 long time ago and are in shmbo's name "LYN" and we have just transfered them with each car, I did notice however when I was last in a regestry office the cost of some of these new plates where you can pick the colour etc and it was huge and ongoing , you have to pay each year :oo: but if thats what rocks you boat and you can afford it then why not , I mean how many on this forum have bought a tool not because you needed it but because you wanted it and it sits on desplay in the shed and is the first thing you show visitors same thing realy:roll:
There are important thing to remenber and less important things. Stupid numbers fit into the first category. The wifes mobile number also. Anniversaries must be in the second category.:UQuote:
Originally Posted by silentC
Anniversaries must be in the second category
most definately :2tsup: :2tsup:
Anniversaries or Birthday? :think:
Now that's an idea - you should be allowed, if you are a bloke, to get a plate that reads XX 1234 Y, where the XX are the wife's initials, 1234 is your wedding anniversary and Y is a random number or letter just thrown in to make sure there are 34 (O and 0 are too similar, as are I and 1) for each combination (in fact there are 68 because you can do the numbers daydaymonth month and month month day day). What a liberating innovation for blokes.......:D :D :2tsup:
Anniversaries only - you never forget the birthday, but anniversaries are tricky IMHOQuote:
Originally Posted by Wongo
I would never have them. The pedestrians might work out who ran them over:doh:
I've always thought that the cars with personalised plates seem to stand out more in traffic. Personally, I prefer to remain as inconspicuous as possible.Quote:
Originally Posted by Howdya do that
well, i always forget my wifes bday (or otherwise i remember for a couple of seconds and then i forget again), and all of those things. it was her bday yesterday and i said i would take her out for tea, then forgot, so i got dim sims for tea.
we are going away for a couple of days, so hopefully that will get me in the good books again, if i behave myself and do the things she wants to do i suppose.:oo: :o :D :D :D
The previous message is a forgery from swmbo :doh:
You better hide the credit cards. Retail therapy is often prescribed for wives whose hubbies have forgotten important events as punishment.Quote:
Originally Posted by echnidna
You need a password on your screen saver :wink:
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Originally Posted by Ashore
You're taking 'em off the shed wall and mounting 'em on the vehicle? :oo:Quote:
Originally Posted by Howdya do that
Like Terry's mine consist of my initials and three zeros. If they had not come up in the normal sequence I would not have bothered.
My plates should be arriving any day now. HWMNBO ordered them for me before I could say, "um, I'd rather not, now everyone can guess my age" :rolleyes: