Cow and Boy Classics by Mark Leiknes for October 10, 2012

Legends in their own time? Be their own men? Hoist with their own petard? (Yayyy, petard!)

= blown up with one’s own bomb

It leaves those red stripes down each side of your body.(Depending which way you shoot your sling..)

Boot straps are nothing like shoe laces. They are little straps of cloth or leather found at the top of a boot, especially tall ones, which the wearer can pull on to help him get the boot on his leg.

Or for an alternate view, feed yourself with your own silver spoon (or let your servant do it).

“Pulling yourself up by your bootstraps” is where the phrase “Booting up” came from decades ago.

Hoist by one’s own petard means to be injured/blown up by the device you intended to injure others with; I suppose the “hoist” is the blowing “up” bit.

Haha, gold, Mr Leiknes. Never thought of it like that!