Subject: Re: Who alluded to lacquer? Re: PK offers peace pipe Re: Paul Kennedy, heads up: WAS: Re: First Bibles: Was Re: Neither a Borrower nor Lender Be
From: Tim O'Connor (oconnort@nyu.edu)
Date: Wed Mar 22 2000 - 12:25:43 EST
On Tue, Mar 21, 2000 at 04:25:37PM -0500, Paul Kennedy wrote:
> ...If you're going to try to call that goo "cheese", we're gonna open a
> whole new argument here. North of the 49th, we make them call it a
> "cheese-flavoured product", which accentuates the arms-length distance from
> any actual dairy. Brie is cheese.... Gorgonzola is cheese.... Wensleydale
> is cheese.... Velveeta is, at best, (and I really think even THIS is
> stretching it) a "cheese-flavoured product". It's made from "edible
> oils"--which can be REALLY SCAREY!
>
> Ladies and gentlemen of the jury, I rest my case.
Paul (and everyone), Ricky Jay, a magician well-respected for his
abilities and his knowledge of the history of magic, once made this
lovely analogy regarding the "magician" David Copperfield, who
irregularly appears on American television (and is known in other
contexts as the guy engaged to the model Claudia Schiffer):
David Copperfield is to magic
as
Cheez Whiz is to cheese.
Cheez Whiz is another dubious American "cheese" derivative.
Sorry, but I couldn't resist. Paul, your honor, you win the case!
--tim
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