Meaning of a sentence

[welldone]

If you are going to do a deathmarch project, it's best go get paid by the mile.
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Dear teachers, what does this mean?

thanks a lot!

[Natalie27]

If you are going to do a deathmarch project, it's best go get paid by the mile.
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Dear teachers, what does this mean?

thanks a lot!

to understand what's exactly meant by death march, please have a look at the following page:
http://c2.com/cgi/wiki/wiki?DeathMarch

Now that you have a better idea what it means, you will see that your sentence contains some humor. It's as if you were to perform the death march yourself (an extremely torterous experience) so you should ask to be paid for every mile you have to walk the march.

[welldone]

wow, thank you so much.
I vaguely understand the meaning actually, but really didn't get the humor behind it!
That was very interesting .

Couldn't thank you more !