Describes a slow, difficult, and disgusting process. First
popularized by a famous quote about the difficulty of getting work
done under one of IBM's mainframe OSes. "Well, you could write a C
compiler in COBOL, but it would be like kicking dead whales down the
beach." See also {fear and loathing}.
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[Reference(s) to this entry by made by: {whales}]