moon substance

[Laurence Horn]

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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