moon substance

[Wilson Gray]

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.

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All say, "How hard it is that we have to die!"---a strange complaint
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