"hoisted by one's own petard ..."

... of prop 8 in California and got alot of blank stares so I thought I would see if other people ever used it. A petard is a medieval-era incendiary device - a bomb. It was used to blow open the main gate or passage to gain entrance. ... the fuse was too short and the explosion lifted you into the air. Thus you were done in by your own device (or bomb). http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Petard

Fanfic: Hoist, Meet Petard (oneshot)

Title: Hoist, meet Petard Author: hu3long2 Characters: Kyouraku, Matsumoto, Ukitake (friendship) Pairings: ShunNanao Rating/Spoilers/Warnings: PG/None/Crack but not mpreg Summary: Kyouraku has bitten off more than he can chew and must now pay the piper. Matsumoto and Ukitake have a conversation about the payment. Disclaimer: Don't own Bleach, not even bleach. At least, I can say that I ...

Hoist by my own petard (...Hey, THAT sounds RONG!)

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Hoist by my own petard

I’ve been having a lot of spam going to my Paypal email address. So I came up with the absolutely brilliant realization that if the only addresses I accept mail from to my Paypal address actually come from Paypal themselves, I can assume everything else to that address is spam. So far so good, right? So I put a line in my .gurgitate-rules saying, “if email comes to my Paypal address and ...

...Smart Kid? Me: Well I'm definitely the weird kid. But I'm not smart. Friend: You read about relativity and quantum mechanics for fun! Me: But I can't do anything with it! I'm even bad at math for first graders! Friend: So? Me: So I'm only smart in the capacity of nonessential abstracts! Friend: ...Fuck you, you're totally That Weird Smart kid. Hoist by my own petard. DAMN YOU, VOCABULARY!

Time to move on...

... I've turned in recent years I've been dogged by the shadow of agile development, something I've ranted over more than once in these pages. In a sense I've been hoist by my own petard as in the late 1990s these were the techniques I told my clients to use if they wanted their underskilled graduate development teams to be vaguely effective. Little did I dream that a decade later the industry would ...

K-drama: Boys Before Flowers, Episodes 9-10

... Rich Bitch villainy? At any rate, there is far less commentary on the economic problems of the times, and here Jan-di’s family are basically pure victims, rather than being somewhat hoist on their own petard as well. Having said that, I liked the whole making a pointed example to her son and heir in the car in that traffic jam; very cat-like. And it’s interesting that she looks hurt when he ...

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... his head asking for restraint. He’s double crossing everyone, and sooner or later, someone will catch on to what he’s doing. Once that happens, it’s surprisingly easy to hoist him by his own petard. For Matt, image is everything, so when his “refreshing like a spring breeze” persona is threatened, he tends to act very, very irrationally. And when he gets boxed into a corner, he never can manage ...

BLEACH News: December 28, 2008

... Contests/Challenges Week 212 challenge at bleach_icontest Week 211 Winners at bleach_icontest Week 109 - Results by bleachorus Fiction: One-Shot Hoist, meet Petard by hu3long2 [Kyouraku, Matsumoto, Ukitake; PG] Chill - (for shinebunny ) at bleach_contest BlackMARIONETTE by marionetteblue3 [ Grimmjow/Ulquiorra, Aizen/...