Early Cheese thread.
 
Mississippi Malcolm McDowell <sdodge

Subject: Dangerous cheeses! (fwd)- only peripheral RH if any

 

This was forwarded to me from someone on the Pynchon list. In the spirit of the person who posted the travel guide to Cleethorpes........

 

Love on ya,

Susan

 

>From today's Grauniad (UK in joke, The Guardian newspaper,

reknowned for its typesetting mistakes)

 

Title: 18 injured at cheese races.

>At least 18 people were injured yesterday as the Cooper's

>Hill cheese rolling competition attracted record crowds in 

>Gloucestershire. Seven of the casualities were spectators

>watching the races down the one-in two hill near Gloucester.

> One man in the crowd, who tried to avoid a bouncing Double

> Gloucester cheese as it went off course, lost his balance and

> fell about 100 feet down the hillside. <snip> 

> One of the winners of the four races, Craig Carter, aged 21,

>a postman ... broke his left arm as he tumbled down the hill.

>About 4,000 people turned up to watch the annual event.

 

Mark \"the rubber chicken of love\" Gloster"

Subject: say cheese

Yea. When I play with cheese competitively, someone always gets hurt.Such a terrible accident happened to my anglo forefathers that my last name lost several letters.

M R Godwin

Subject: Re: Dangerous cheeses! (fwd)- only peripheral RH if any

> > One man in the crowd, who tried to avoid a bouncing Double

> > Gloucester cheese as it went off course, lost his balance and

> > fell about 100 feet down the hillside. <snip>

 

This is what you risk when you say "Please direct me to the cheese"!

- hssmrg

PS Idea for an SF movie: "Attack of the 50 foot Camembert"?

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