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<p class="MsoPlainText">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. </p>
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<p>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. <br>
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<p>I suspect it is actually petards, not turtles, all the way down!</p>
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