Subject: Re: [FanFic] huh?
From: Caroline Ann Seawright
Date: 3/17/1996, 6:30 AM
To: fanfic@tendo-dojo.ranma.net

Biles:It's not my fic. It was given to me...Hoist by my petard!
                                             ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ always
wondered what this means...
                                                                I know Kuno
says it but....

A petard was one of these bomb-like things that they used a long time ago
(around Sheakspeare times) to blow open the castle doors... And when the
guy who lit the bomb thingy, after sticking it to the door, got caught in
the blast, he was 'hoist by his own petard'... So, it means to get undone
by something you set up, yourself. ^_^

Kun-chan...