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<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>like kicking dead whales down the beach</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="../../jargon.css" type="text/css"/><meta name="generator" content="DocBook XSL Stylesheets V1.61.0"/><link rel="home" href="../index.html" title="The Jargon File"/><link rel="up" href="../L.html" title="L"/><link rel="previous" href="lightweight.html" title="lightweight"/><link rel="next" href="like-nailing-jelly-to-a-tree.html" title="like nailing jelly to a tree"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">like kicking dead whales down the beach</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="lightweight.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">L</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="like-nailing-jelly-to-a-tree.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="like-kicking-dead-whales-down-the-beach"/><dt xmlns="" id="like-kicking-dead-whales-down-the-beach"><b>like kicking dead whales down the beach</b>: <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="grammar">adj.</span></dt></dt><dd><p> Describes a slow, difficult, and disgusting process. First
popularized by a famous quote about the difficulty of getting work done
under one of IBM's mainframe OSes. &#8220;<span class="quote">Well, you
<span class="emphasis"><em>could</em></span> write a C compiler in COBOL, but it would be
like kicking dead whales down the beach.</span>&#8221; See also
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