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Being horse racing season, it's a good time drop some knowledge about dead horses. "Beating a dead horse" is a racing term. The horse is not literally dead, but rather "gassed" or exhausted. When a horse has nothing left in the tank, striking him with a riding crop (i.e. "beating") is pointlessly cruel to the animal.

So while there are many "dead" horses on this board, none are the bloating stinking carcasses you might imagine them to be.
 
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Are you making a point that we can post more Ollie NBA threads?
 

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Are you making a point that we can post more Ollie NBA threads?
My point was only to educate. No one with a post count as low as mine should presume to be a gate keeper for content on this board. Do I have a position on all the NBA speculation? Well let's just say I am no fan of animal cruelty.
 
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My point was only to educate. No one with a post count as low as mine should presume to be a gate keeper for content on this board. Do I have a position on all the NBA speculation? Well let's just say I am no fan of animal cruelty.
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Ghz said:
drop some knowledge about dead horses.

I love this post, just for this one line alone. Not every day you find someone dropping dead horse knowledge.

Seabiscuit is dead, so that whole book/movie was chock full of dead horse knowledge. But about a specific dead horse - perhaps not much could be gleaned from that book/movie that would apply to dead horses universally.
 
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