Caught Out
Turns out petards are a real thing and they're SUPER DANGEROUS???
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I see you too have read the age of empires 2 manual
Claire is me
Pétard is just french for firecracker
Which in turn comes from explosive flatuence.
Why can't Big Bang Theory be like this?
Because then it wouldn't be a a thinly veiled excuse to encourage its viewers to point and laugh at the nerds to feel better about themselves.
Jousted by mine own Picard :-/
No, that only happens to Q.
Hehe. Fart joke. No, seriously, a petard is named after farts. This makes this a fart joke.
Yeah, petards are da bomb...
I've got a feeling that the teen years at Casa Augustus were pretty much continual bickering between those two! I'm really getting into Clinton and Claire's relationship - Bickering, loving and completely open; they're probably both be mired in their personality problems if they didn't have their sibling to shamelessly call them out about them!
Clinton is chill
Petards are where we get this from: 💣 Turns out that a grenade with a really inaccurate fuse is a really bad idea
Etymology: mid 16th century: from French pétard, from péter ‘break wind’.
Yes, really.
Well, I got it *almost* correct from memory. <a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hoist_with_his_own_petard" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hoist_with_his_own_petard</a>
'Tis a sport for the enginer to be hoist on his own petard.
Wiki
"Hoist with his own petard" is a Shakespearean idiom from Hamlet meaning "to cause the bomb maker to be blown up with his own bomb". A petard is a small bomb used for blowing up gates and walls when breaching ...
I love these dorks.
HOISTED (Clearly I didn't read the alt before contributing here)
I had a pun in mind concerning the phrase "acting petarded" but I can't be sure if that's offensive or not...
Good rule of thumb is that if you can't be sure whether or not it's offensive, it probably is.
Petards = IED's.
DROID 06 TRY TO BE DORK.
I just looked it up, and apparently petards are a kind of bomb?! I always assumed they were like suspenders, hence how you could be 'hoisted by your own petard'. I'm not really sure how an explosion can hoist you. I wonder where that phase came from! haha
I thought it was like a spear or something
Clinton is cute when he gets all high and mighty. Needs cuter glasses though.
He goes very Peanuts.
These two are the most adorable siblings ever.
Own goaled
Proper sibling dialogue, lol!
"You are the one who is the dork!" /JayAndSilentBob
and then claire was a dork
And the world makes sense again