Saturday, March 10, 2007

Eating the Dead Horse

Alright, I noticed this is post 100, so I'll leave a short fun linguistical situation.

During a class presentation, I sort of hammered on the same topic over and over in the presentation with various examples. On the last example around the end of the presentation I said, "Look, I know I'm beating a dead horse here, but this is very important to the presentation..." and I got a few laughs. Even from the foreign students. Hey, that went over well. Right?

Then one of the Chinese students came up to me after class and asked:
"Excuse me, but what is 'eating a dead horse'?"

... :| *sigh*

HAPPY 100 EVERYBODY! WOOHOO ("WUJU" para los lectores del sur... hm... o lectora del sur.)

4 comments:

Arely said...

LOL!!
wow.. jiji :"> we do that. there's a saying "el sordo no oye, pero bien que compone" sordos and esl students alike :P
so, speaking of componer, am I the southern person? how am I a southern, dear? Im from the north of Mexico, and I think Im futher up north in the States than you ;)
luv ya.

quijotefan83 said...

It was a continuation of our prior geographical discourse, my dear. :D I using big words! YAY! :P

You are currently more north than me. But you won't be for long. Muajajajaja.

Arely said...

grad student mouth? except for our deficient grammar/spelling? jiji..

Anonymous said...

Both pathetic weather wimps...try twenty-two winters in Minnesota.
Q's beaten-down D.