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Which is dumber ?
Beating a dead horse
Putting the cart before the horse
Beating a dead horse is sickening, but may be fun.
An inventor could put the cart before the horse, and end up with the equivalent of a rear-wheel drive vehicle.
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Which one is harder to take with a grain of salt ?
A transparent lie
An opaque truth
Clearly the opaque truth, since the lie is obvious.
Advertisers have known this for ages, and use opaque truths such as misleading statistics.
[This message has been edited by suicide_junkie (edited 08 September 2001).]