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2014-04-26 10:52:28 -04:00
like kicking dead whales down the beach
2014-04-26 11:54:15 -04:00
adj. 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. Well, you could write a C compiler in COBOL, but it
would be like kicking dead whales down the beach. See also fear and
loathing.