Public Service Announcement

[bloodandsmoke]

It's, "For all intents and purposes." Thank you. Please take care when using cliches. Especially if you aren't using it right.

I've heard this five times this week alone.

Comments

[morlock]

for all in tents with porpoises? kinky.

[madsahara]

Ok folks, quiz time:
"The proof of the pudding"
"The proof is in the pudding"
-which one is correct? The winner gets pudding.

[bloodandsmoke]

They're both wrong.

"The proof is in the pudding" is a bastardization which was made up to make sense of the truncated, "The proof of the pudding", which in turn comes from the old phrase, "The proof of the pudding is in the eating", which I guess is to say that the quality of the pudding is only determined by its consumption.

[madsahara]

Irregardless, I would say the first one is more correct than the second. (Oooh did you see what I did there? ARRRGH!)

[bloodandsmoke]

What, so no pudding?

[madsahara]

*sigh* Ok, pudding for you. Pick a flavor. Not porpoise.

[cell23]

MAN PUDDING

[madsahara]

I just wanted to make fun of 'irregardless'. ba-dooh.

[bloodandsmoke]

Wanna know what's funny?

Last time I checked my manual style, the only time it's appropriate to use "irregardless" is when you're using it in an ironic capacity. It's a perfectly legal word, but since it's meaning is identical to "regardless" it's usually considered needlessly abstruse to use it.