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Related: Culture Forums, Support ForumsI hate it when people get sayings wrong! After all, it's not
rocket surgery!
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(52,483 posts)Floyd R. Turbo
(26,700 posts)klook
(12,174 posts)Bradshaw3
(7,543 posts)Ron Obvious
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(7,543 posts)Turbineguy
(37,412 posts)They snatch defeat from the jaws of victory.
coolsimo
(26 posts)... getting two birds stoned at once.
TlalocW
(15,394 posts)You can drag a horse to water, but you can't throw pearls at him to make him sew a silk purse out of a pig in a poke even after the cat has been let out of the whole nine yards of its bag.
TlalocW
True Dough
(17,371 posts)GENIUS!
Generic Brad
(14,276 posts)How can it possibly ever rain Katzen dogs when we don't even know what they are?
Liberal Veteran
(22,239 posts)The first couple of times, I thought I just had a stroke and misheard her.
About the fifth time, I had to resist the overwhelming urge to scream at the top of my lungs "THE PROOF OF THE PUDDING IS IN THE EATING! or if you must THE PROOF IS IN THE PUDDING! You aren't proving anything to the god-damned pudding!"
TlalocW
(15,394 posts)Use that phrase, correctly or not, seven or more times. Are all people in your area as pudding-concerned as your co-worker?
TlalocW
Liberal Veteran
(22,239 posts)I don't why she had a tendency to keep saying that, but over the course of 6 years, I'd say I heard her say that about 10 times.
zanana1
(6,139 posts)And the cookie bounces.
sarge43
(28,946 posts)It's the exception proofs the rule. In other words, tests the rule.
Ron Obvious
(6,261 posts)I love Archie Bunkerisms.
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(118,379 posts)unc70
(6,125 posts)I give credit for that one to my late MiL. She was a charming lady who was as always saying things like that.