Re: About to order motherboard Asus M4A78LT-M - any known issues?

[Ron Johnson <ron.l.johnson@cox.net>]

On 04/01/2011 05:11 PM, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote:
> On 2011-04-01 13:48:06 Ron Johnson wrote:
> > On 04/01/2011 11:24 AM, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote:
> > > On 2011-04-01 01:31:47 Klistvud wrote:
> > > > the final proof will be in the pudding ...
> > >
> > > The proof *of* the pudding is in the eating.
> >
> > Except when the proof is actually *in* the pudding... :)
> >
> > Anyway, since American pudding is nothing like British pudding we
> > altered the phrase.  And now our way is the right way, gosh darn it!!!
>
> As an American, I think we should honor the long history of this proverb by at
> least *knowing* the full form, since "the proof is in the pudding" makes
> little sense.  "The proof of the pudding is in the eating." is a bit of an
> archaic wording, but it does make sense; you don't know the quality of pudding
> before you taste it.

Or... you begin to eat it, see toenail clippings and proclaim, "The 
proof is *in* the pudding: it's inedible!!"

:)

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