Citations:necrohipposadism
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Noun: "(humorous) the act or practice of beating a dead horse"
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- 1999 October 1, Kay Shapero, “Filters and the Loyal Opposition”, in alt.fan.furry[2] (Usenet):
- So on the whole, the posts the newbies see that don't have the filter are going to be divided between those ignoring the whole thing, and those committing necrohipposadism on someone else's behavior, real or imagined.
- 2005 May 2, Ben Bradley, “Re: OS level programming vs microcontrollers”, in comp.robotics.misc[5] (Usenet):
- I've actually written two other longish responses, perhaps against my better judgement because I think Gordon and others are probably right, this topic HAS been beaten to death, but sometimes I'm a bit optimistic (perhaps pollyannish), and/or in denial that I'm practicing necrohipposadism.
- 2008 November 9, mpvorkosigan, “Re: JMS writing "Forbidden Planet" ( was: Re: So what should JMS do next?)”, in rec.arts.sf.tv.babylon5.moderated[6] (Usenet):
- Personally, I'm with Amy on this, but we've gotten into some serious necrohipposadism, and I think we oughta just let this particular dead horse take a break.