[FRIAM] flattening -isms

[Steven A Smith]

> By the way, speaking of etymology, to be hoist by one’s own petard is
> to be ejected from one’s own saddle by the force of one’s own fart. 
> Look it up.
>
And I grew up thinking it was a fancy way of saying "lift oneself by
their own bootstraps" which was paradoxically both a physical
impossibility yet somehow touted as the highest aspiration. 

I suspect it is actually petards, not turtles, all the way down!


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