Member: Mike_Doughty

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MARCH 29, 2009 @ 08:57 AM


I realized that I was flakey flakey when I initially announced I got a Twitter going, then dropped the ball, but I'm really seriously Twittering of late, I'm on somewhat of a roll:

Twitter.com/MikeDoughtyYeah

On my real blog are pix of an all-garden-gnome store Scrap and I came across while foraging for Wurst in Frankfurt:

mikedoughty.com/blog

Frankfurters, it turns out, do not have some kind of local-speciality specialness about them when you eat them in Frankfurt: they are indeed hot dogs.
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Missy

Missy

SUICIDEGIRL

California, USA

MAR 30, 2009 11:23 AM

Added you!

Did you get my e-mail a few weeks back?

xoxo
-missy

Jaie

Jaie

SUICIDEGIRL

I'm lost

APR 10, 2009 08:45 AM

hmmm thats how i smile

Jaie

Jaie

SUICIDEGIRL

I'm lost

APR 10, 2009 08:56 AM

this is a naked site, so sexy faces are a must sir. wink

Dylan

Dylan

SUICIDEGIRL

United Kingdom

APR 10, 2009 11:35 AM

I don't do fishing for compliments, I just write things that I like the sound of how they are in my head. Also to be fair my hips are so wide I have to turn sideways to get through doors, did you not know they airbrush the shit out of us on here?

KharnalBloodlust

kharnalbloodlust

Indianapolis, IN
September 2003

APR 14, 2009 06:10 PM

@ bluesquare5 is my twitter. =) shampooing your face, hunh? i can see that.

Tana

Tana

SUICIDEGIRL

Oregon, USA

APR 18, 2009 07:27 PM

Mike I would LOVE to meet you/ catch your show at Mississippi Studios while you are here!

Siv

Siv

SUICIDEGIRL

District Of Columbia, USA

APR 22, 2009 08:23 PM

I AM THE KEYMASTER!!!

Meaning

Injured by the device that you intended to use to injure others.

Origin

The phrase 'hoist with one's own petar[d]' is often cited as 'hoist by one's own petar[d]'. The two forms mean the same, although the former is strictly a more accurate version of the original source. A petard is, or rather was, as they have long since fallen out of use, a small engine of war used to blow breaches in gates or walls. They were originally metallic and bell-shaped but later cubical wooden boxes. Whatever the shape, the significant feature was that they were full of gunpowder - basically what we would now call a bomb.

The device was used by the military forces of all the major European fighting nations by the 16th century. In French and English - petar or petard, and in Spanish and Italian - petardo.

The dictionary maker John Florio defined them like this in 1598:

"Petardo - a squib or petard of gun powder vsed to burst vp gates or doores with."

The French have the word 'péter' - to fart, which it's hard to imagine is unrelated.

Petar was part of the everyday language around that time, as in this rather colourful line from Zackary Coke in his work Logick, 1654:

"The prayers of the Saints ascending with you, will Petarr your entrances through heavens Portcullis".

Once the word is known, 'hoist by your own petard' is easy to fathom. It's nice also to have a definitive source - no less than Shakespeare, who gives the line to Hamlet (1603):

"For tis the sport to have the enginer Hoist with his owne petar".

StrongMad

StrongMad

Seattle, WA
July 2004

APR 30, 2009 12:16 AM

I juat wanted to tell you I was having a crappy day, and "Unsingable Name" showed up on my shuffle.

There's simply no way to feel shitty while listening to that song. Thanks for making great music. It's therapeutic.

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