[Dixielandjazz] Definitions - was Band dress & festival attendance

[Dixie Teel]

According to my Merriman Webster home and office edition: Petard--N :  a
case containing an explosive to break down a door or gate or breach a wall.
I read that to mean Dr. Hooks is a body full of tnt ready to explode.
Maybe I'd better find a bigger dictionary or a copy of the OED.  Or have I
missed something?
Dixie Teel
----- Original Message -----
From: "Stephen Barbone" <barbonestreet@earthlink.net>
To: "Dixieland Jazz Mailing List" <dixielandjazz@ml.islandnet.com>
Sent: Thursday, July 18, 2002 3:10 PM
Subject: [Dixielandjazz] Definitions - was Band dress & festival attendance


> Charlie Hooks wrote about opinions & posts on the DJML and the question:
>
> > Are we hoisted on our own petards?
>
>
> "Actually, quite an apt phrase in this context--but you'll have to get
> Bill Gunter to define "petard" for you.  Or look it up in the OED for
> yourself.
>
> helpfully?"
>
> List mates:
>
> Don't let Dr. Hooks (Ph.D.) get away with that. If anybody can define
> "petard", he and William Buckley can. Not only is he a learned
> academician in "English", but also a fine jazz musician and all around
> wig. Wig meaning smart person, (New York City slang) not a member of the
> Liberal Party in England, (Whig).
>
> Cheers,
> Steve Barbone
>
> PS. If he leaves the list., not only will I send all my posts to him as
> Jim Beebe suggested but copies of the entire digest every day under
> various return address names so he cannot block them with a spaminator
> ;-)
>
>
>
>
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