On 04/07/2012, at 5:43 AM, Bill Burdick wrote: > On Tue, Jul 3, 2012 at 4:08 PM, Stephan Beal <[email protected]> wrote: > On Tue, Jul 3, 2012 at 11:04 PM, Bill Burdick <[email protected]> wrote: > On Tue, Jul 3, 2012 at 3:58 PM, Stephan Beal <[email protected]> wrote: > @DRH: "the proof is in the pudding" (though i've never really understood > where that phrase comes from) > > Heh, well, that's because it doesn't make sense. The actual saying is: "The > proof of the pudding is in the eating." :) > > LOL! Well, it certainly tastes better than my foot ;). > > It's a very misquoted quotation. Like, "money is the root of all kinds of > evil," is usually quoted as, "money is the root of all evil."
Actually, the correct quote is "For the love of money is a root of all kinds of evil." - http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=1+Timothy+6%3A10&version=NIV > It's just par for the course. Most people say, "the proof is in the > pudding," but, unlike you, they just don't realize that they just said > something that doesn't really make very much sense. I mean, if the proof is > in the pudding and you're making pudding, then the pudding doesn't exist yet. > Maybe they should say, "the proof will be in the pudding." > > Anyway -- I guess this is turning into a thread-jack :). Ditto Steve _______________________________________________ fossil-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.fossil-scm.org:8080/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/fossil-users
