> 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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