Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1998/02/10
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Jeremy, Interesting. G. B. Shaw once said something about Americans, and the British being peoples separated by a common language! I know that 'flogging' is a colloquialism for selling; here we say 'beating a dead horse', implying that the poor beast died in harness. Thus, beating the dead horse gets you nowhere. Very similar sayings, two entirely different meanings! I always think of Shaw when I put my camera in the boot of my motorcar, or step into a lift! Well, must go; teatime, you know! Dan'l dwpost@msn.com - -----Original Message----- From: jeremy.kime@bbc.co.uk <jeremy.kime@bbc.co.uk> To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us <leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us> Date: Tuesday, February 10, 1998 10:25 AM Subject: Re: [Leica] Defective Lens > >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> >At 01:46 PM 2/9/98 +0000, you wrote: > >>Hey, >>Don't knock it Eric, >>It's a real turn on for necrophiliacs! > >And you would know because...? > >========== >Eric, >I heard the word once in a joke which went like this.... > >Did you here the one about the pervert who was into flagelation, necrophilia >and bestiality? >No? >Turned out he was just 'flogging a dead horse'. > >Having written that, I hope you Americans know that expression, 'flogging a >dead horse', it wont make much sense otherwise. >It means trying to sell (financially or persuasively) something worthless. >Probably as worthless as that joke! > >Jem