theological origins of "Cheese it!"

[Laurence Horn]

At 1:26 PM -0500 2/24/02, George Thompson wrote:
>
>Stanley Block of the Bronx said: "When immigrants who spoke no English
>listened to English-speaking gamblers, they'd repeat, to the best of
>their abilities, what they thought was being said.  So when a police
>car rounded the corner and a lookout cried, 'Jesus, it's the cops.' to
>the immigrants it sounded like, 'Cheese it, the cops.'"

Well, there is, or at least was, a wonderful fromagerie in lower
Manhattan called "Cheeses of Nazareth".

larry