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Tanner Stauss
08-01-2009, 07:52 AM
:beatdeadhorse5:

oh man, I haven't seen this one before, and it just makes me laugh. I'm in Kazakhstan right now, where the horse is a very valuable and honored animal, but they also eat it. So, that makes it worth one more laugh for me.

seriously, what would you be saying that this little animation would relate to? Besides beating horse's of course. lol

Iannis Holwech
08-01-2009, 09:52 AM
:beatdeadhorse5:

seriously, what would you be saying that this little animation would relate to? Besides beating horse's of course. lol



http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beating_a_dead_horse




Beating a dead horse
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"Flogging a dead horse" redirects here.

"Beating a dead horse" is an idiom that means a particular request or line of conversation is already foreclosed or otherwise resolved, and any attempt to continue it is futile.

The first recorded use of the expression with its modern meaning is by British politician and orator John Bright, referring to the Reform Bill of 1867, which called for more democratic representation in Parliament, and about which Parliament was singularly apathetic. Trying to rouse Parliament from its apathy on the issue, he said in a speech, would be like trying to flog a dead horse to make it pull a load. The Oxford English Dictionary cites the Globe, 1872, as the earliest verifiable use of flogging a dead horse;

"For..twenty minutes..the Premier..might be said to have rehearsed that..lively operation known as flogging a dead horse."

Joseph Ward
08-01-2009, 03:44 PM
This ones my favorite. :emote_happyhappy: Wonder what emote icon is the most used?

Tanner Stauss
08-01-2009, 11:36 PM
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beating_a_dead_horse

Ok, that makes sense. Still makes me laugh. It seems like there are new smilies every day.