The proof is not in the fucking pudding

[lazarus]

The saying is, "The proof of the pudding is in the taste." "The proof is in the pudding" makes no sense, unless you stabbed someone and then hid the knife in the big bowl of pudding you were making.

Anybody else have malapropisms that drive them crazy?

[Sugarcoated]

1. Easy as pie

Not easy to make if you make the dough from scratch and roll it out yourself. If it refers to eating it, then it would work.

[swimboy]

11. and as far as lattice-work goes

just forget about it!

[asdjrocky]

2. You don't have your cake and eat it too.

Of course you eat it if you have it.

The trick is eating your cake and still having it.

[DRoseDARs]

3. You want to cite sources for "The proof of the pudding is in that taste." ?

These disagree with your correction. ;)

http://ask.yahoo.com/20020903.html

Word Detective and the American Heritage Dictionary of Idioms note that the phrase came into use around 1600. However, a bulletin board quotes The Dictionary of Cliches, which dates the phrase to the 14th century. The board also mentions a 1682 version from Bileau's Le Lutrin, which read, "The proof of th' pudding's seen i' the eating."

http://www.bartleby.com/100/733.75.html
John Bartlett (1820–1905). Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. 1919.

NUMBER: 9458
AUTHOR: Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (1547–1616)
QUOTATION: The proof of the pudding is the eating.
ATTRIBUTION: Don Quixote. Part ii. Chap. xxiv.

[lazarus]

4. y'know

I misremembered. I just knew that "the proof is in the pudding" is flat wrong. Thanks for the correction!

[DRoseDARs]

5. A lot can be lost in the translation after 500 years... n/t

[rug]

6. I could care less.

[av8rdave]

7. The whole nine yards

If you're 3rd or 4th and 10, even the whole 9 yards isn't going to do you a lot of good.

I realize the saying probably has nothing to do with football, but hey...you gotta evolve with the times, you know?

On edit: Oh yeah, and a watched pot never boils. What complete, utter bullshit! I've watched many pots boil over the years.

[Kali]

14. but it takes longer if you watch

:rofl:

[Swede]

8. I hear that.

[Tuesday Afternoon]

9. "see what I'm saying..."

?

[stray cat]

10. Is that low fat sugar free pudding or the good stuff?

[caitxrawks]

12. mmmmmm

I like puddin'.

[swimboy]

13. Begs the question

This is so easy and effective to use incorrectly and most people will understand exactly what you mean.

I'm afraid I haven't yet apprehended the correct way to use it as explained to me to date.

If only tjwmason were on hand . . .

[fizzgig]

15. first annual

something isn't an annual event on it's first year :grr: