Beating a dead...

[mcb_homis]

horse cat. It doesn't make sense to beat a dead horse, it's dead Jim. But a cat on the other hand has nine lives and thus beating it despite being dead has meaning at least until you have beaten all the remaining nine lives out of it.

In other news how many time does an engineer have to say if you make the part out of aluminum it will break, make it out of steel and it won't?