By the way, I don't think the Pink Pony is necessarily related to beating a dead horse (could be---I don't know Legume well enough to say how his mind works), which is an ancient cliche. The Internet joke that circles endlessly about dead horses: Dakota Indian tribal wisdom says that when you discover you are riding a colloquial dead horse, the best strategy is to dismount. However, in modern organizations, we often try other strategies with dead horses, including the following: - buying a stronger whip - changing riders - saying things like "This is the way we always have ridden this horse" - appointing a committee to the study the horse - arranging to visit other sites to see how they ride dead horses - increasing the standards to ride dead horses - appointing a tiger team to revive the dead horses - creating a training session to increase our riding ability - comparing the state of dead horses in today's environment - passing a resolution declaring: "This horse is not dead" - blaming the horses' ancestry - harnessing several dead horses for increased speed - declaring that "No horse is too dead to beat" - providing addtional funding to increase the horse's performance - do a study to see if contractors can ride it cheaper - declare the horse is better, faster and cheaper dead - form a quality circle to find uses for dead horses - revisit the performance requirements for dead horses - say that this horse was procured with cost as the independent variable - promote the dead horse to a suprvisory position Seems strangely applicable to many situations, doesn't it?