moon substance

[Tom Zurinskas]

I've recently read that the moon is hollow because it rang like a bell when struck.  The cheese may be inside, along with the aliens of course.  Meanwhile, there's water on the poles.  I'd l ike a swig of some moon water.

Tom Zurinskas, Conn 20 yrs, then Tenn 3, NJ 33, now FL 9.
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> Date: Wed, 9 Mar 2011 16:23:07 -0500
> From: laurence.horn at YALE.EDU
> Subject: Re: moon substance
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> At 4:04 PM -0500 3/9/11, Wilson Gray wrote:
> >On Tue, Mar 8, 2011 at 6:10 PM, Jonathan Lighter
> ><wuxxmupp2000 at gmail.com> wrote:
> >> "Green cheese" is the only version I'm familiar with.
> >
> >Me, too.
> >
> >FWIW, it was dekkids before I cottoned to to the fact that _green_ WRT
> >cheese was being used in opposition to _ripe_, WRT to cheese -
> >concepts with which I was long totally unfamiliar - and it was not the
> >stomach-turning, nonsensical assumption that there was some form of
> >cheese, a sickening green in color, out of which the clearly-white
> >moon was made.
> >
> ...which for me brings up (as it were) the immortal poker table
> exchange from "The Odd Couple" (Neil Simon):
> 
> OSCAR: Who wants food?
> MURRAY: What have you got?
> OSCAR (looks under bread): I got brown sandwiches and green sandwiches...
> MURRAY:What's the green?
> OSCAR: It's either very new cheese or very old meat.
> MURRAY: I'll take the brown.
> 
> LH
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