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📢 CURMUDGEONS' CORNER XVI 📢

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    The proof is not ‘in the pudding’ … the correct quote is ‘The proof of the pudding is in the eating thereof’!!! 

    The former makes no sense at all 😂 

    Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.





  • Hostafan1Hostafan1 Posts: 34,889
    🙄 

    The proof is not ‘in the pudding’ … the correct quote is ‘The proof of the pudding is in the eating thereof’!!! 

    The former makes no sense at all 😂 
    I'm too common to use the word "thereof" 
    I've always said :
    ‘The proof of the pudding is in the eating'
    Devon.
  • Hostafan1Hostafan1 Posts: 34,889
    By the way @Dovefromabove, are you in sunny Devon yet?
    Devon.
  • We should be in Devon this time tomorrow @Hostafan1 … you’re getting a bit ahead of things …

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  • Hostafan1Hostafan1 Posts: 34,889
    We should be in Devon this time tomorrow @Hostafan1 … you’re getting a bit ahead of things …
    sorry, Groundhog Day does weird things to my tiny brain.
    Devon.
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  • FairygirlFairygirl Posts: 55,117
    I think you posted about proof and pudding  on 'that' thread by mistake @Dovefromabove.
    I wouldn't go there without a full suit of armour though... :/
    Jeez.
    You know that phrase about banging your head against a wall? At least the pain goes away when you stop doing it.
    It's a place where beautiful isn't enough of a word....



    I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
  • No that was intentional @Fairygirl  😉 … I was responding to the misuse of the proverb. Correctly used the proverb means the opposite of the way it was used 😎  

    Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.





  • FairygirlFairygirl Posts: 55,117
    Ah - fair dos.
    I still wouldn't go there. It's becoming 'Trump-esque' ....  
    I'm out.  :D
    It's a place where beautiful isn't enough of a word....



    I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
  • Isn’t it just?  At least Donald Rumsfeld understood the concept of ‘unknown unknowns’. 😉 

    Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.





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