Due to recent events, Hoss has consulted with his peers and has been forced to make an executive decision. It seems there has been a bandwagon circling the territory which allows for certain members of Diesel Truck Resource to wear pink skirts with fluffy, white blouses while chasing innocent sheep around the pastures near their homes. Many people have been jumping on this bandwagon. Due to the fact that Hoss finds this behavior to be somewhat sickening and distasteful, and the fact that this new craze seems to be catching on like wildfire, it is no longer permissible for members of DTR to wear pink skirts and chase sheep around in pastures. Doing so is punishable by immediate and vicious retaliation by the sheep which could lead to public humiliation of the offender and/or death. This decision is effective immediately. Thank you.

All responses to this thread, except by the originator of the thread, regardless of their content, shall be considered admittance to such crude acts as stated above and furthermore will indicate to all that the responder has willfully participated in such activities on his own accord.

 

This is not a joke. This is not a laughing matter.

 

You're not an Aggie, but despite that you should still be able to understand plain English. If it's not clear enough....THIS MEANS YOU.

 

[quote author=TxRedneck link=board=10;threadid=20153;start=0#msg189330 date=1064527170]
Oh Ok I will take care. Sorry about that.
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I love it!!

 

[quote author=JKE link=board=10;threadid=20153;start=0#msg189342 date=1064528204]
this was not a laughing matter
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Not at all.

 

[quote author=spots link=board=10;threadid=20153;start=0#msg189403 date=1064536155]Bring it on......... ;D ;D ;D ;D

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"Vengeance is mine," say the sheep. ;D

 

Gonzo caught with his pants down....

 

[quote author=Mexstan link=board=10;threadid=20153;start=15#msg189458 date=1064540990]
Hmmm, I wonder? Could it be possible? Hoss hoisted on his own petard?? ;D

For you ignoramusus ;D here is the meaning:

HOIST BY/WITH HIS OWN PETARD or HOIST ON ONE’S OWN PETARD: Means destroyed by one’s own trickery or inventiveness or caught by the very device one had contrived to hurt another.


A ‘petard,’ in medieval warfare was a metal and bell-shaped explosive charge (a crude hand grenade or mine) which took its name, oddly enough, from the French ‘peter,’ ‘to break wind.’ Daring warriors would affix to the walls or gates of a castle under siege. This action in itself was a most hazardous one, but the greatest danger came after the ‘petard’ was in place. The explosive was detonated by a slow match or slow burning fuse. Occasionally, of course, the explosive went off prematurely, blowing up the man who lit it as well as the castle wall. Such a man was said to be ‘hoist’ (lifted or heaved) ‘by his own petard.’ Note that the ‘hoist’ in the passage is not the same as our modern "hoist"; it's an older form of the word, ‘hoise,’ with a participial ending that ends up as a -t (it would normally be written hoised).


It is unlikely that this archaic phrase would have persisted in our language, even in a figurative sense, had not Shakespeare conferred immortality upon it with his line from ‘Hamlet’ (~1600) when Rosencranz and Guildenstern are sent with Hamlet to England bearing orders that Hamlet be killed. Hamlet alters the orders so that they are killed instead. Hamlet then says: For 'tis the sport to have the engineer hoist with his own petard; and 't shall go hard, but I will delve one yard below their mines, and blow them at the moon. (Hamlet III.iv.206ff, spelling modernized). Today it is chiefly used to describe a person ruined by plans or devices with which he had plotted to ensnare others.


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Stan, my friend, of ALL people...I never expected YOU to be one of them. I mean, for goodness sakes, they're SHEEP!!! How disappointing...