Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84 exptools; site ihlpa.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxr!ihnp4!ihlpa!lew From: lew@ihlpa.UUCP (Lew Mammel, Jr.) Newsgroups: net.religion Subject: The cheese connection Message-ID: <142@ihlpa.UUCP> Date: Wed, 6-Mar-85 11:31:43 EST Article-I.D.: ihlpa.142 Posted: Wed Mar 6 11:31:43 1985 Date-Received: Thu, 7-Mar-85 05:09:36 EST Distribution: net Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories Lines: 24 The "cheeses" ditty reminds me of the beginning of LIFE OF BRIAN where some people are listening at the edge of the crowd to The Sermon on the Mount: Jesus: ...blessed are the peacemakers 1st man: What did he say? 2nd man: blessed are the cheesemakers. 1st man: Cheesemakers? Why cheesemakers? 3rd man: It's not meant literally! It refers to any manufacturer of dairy products. Incidentally, I didn't think LIFE OF BRIAN was sacrilegious at all. It wasn't Jesus being mocked, only peoples' response to him. Back to cheese, my mother always thought that the refrain "All we like sheep, [have gone astray]" sounded like "Oh, we like cheese!" Maybe we're on to something here. Lew Mammel, Jr. ihnp4!ihlpa!lew