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“I’m going to whale the tar out of you!” That’s something I heard for years as a kid, and it usually sent me running for cover. I knew what it implied, but had no idea where it originated. It seems that baleen, the strong flexible filtering rods from a Right Whale’s upper jaw, which was used for corset stays and umbrella rods was also used for horsewhips. So to be whaled was to be horsewhipped. He used a belt….. The Old Man just couldn’t get anything right.

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