"For 'tis the sport to have the engineer
Hoist with his own petar."

William Shakespeare -- Hamlet -- Act III, scene iv, line 206

Not "PETARD" and not "HOISTED" -- in this famous quotation.

Prosecutio stultitiae est gravis vexatio, executio stultitiae coronat opus.

This faux engineer, Gordon, chooses to hide behind just a first name.

'Nuff Said.

D. Spencer Hines
Lux et Veritas et Libertas
Vires et Honor
Veni, Vidi, Calcitravi Asinum

Gordon wrote:

"D. Spencer Hines" wrote in message
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You need to take a close look at William Shakespeare's _Hamlet_.

When you have done that come back for further basic instruction.

Unfortunately Shakespeare was not a Royal Engineer. A Petard, with a "D"
is an explosive charge that is fixed halfway up the gate of a fortified
enclosure in order to blow a hole in it.

People who got hung up with it were killed. Hence the phrase "hoisted
with his own petard". [sic]