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. -- Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. ,= ,-_-. =. bss@iguanasuicide.net ((_/)o o(\_)) ICQ: 514984 YM/AIM: DaTwinkDaddy `-'(. .)`-' http://iguanasuicide.net/ \_/
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