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10 Things: Cheese (Bonus Thing!)
Saturday, September 11, 2010 at 12:00PM I’ve scraped an old 10 Things out of the notebook. So you could say that today’s 10 Things is aged, moldy even. I reproduce it here unedited, AS IS, with only one word corrected for spelling.
If you’re new to 10 Things, here’s how it works. I’ll give you a PROMPT, then you’ll write the first 10 THINGS that arrive in the forefront of your mind when you contemplate that prompt. You can do it quickly or you can SAVOR the contemplation and take your time. Either way, put YOUR 10 Things down there in the comments and then read what I came up with back in May. I’ll leave a little no-spoiler space here, so that you aren’t accidentally influenced by MY 10 things.
Why do I do this? To stimulate the writing brain cells. Call me a Fairy Inspiration-mother, but only if you mean it in a nice way.
Ready for the PROMPT?
CHEESE!! Go go go.
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1. Mouse, mousetrap, cheese, and peanut butter.
2. Pizza with stringy, melted mozzarella.
3. String-cheese sticks. Is that even really cheese? Seriously.
4. Cheese and crackers!! (as a snack AND an exclamation)
5. Cheesy. As in campy or groan worthy.
6. Cheesy. As in seedy, seamy, holey, or of low quality.
7. A child hamming it up for the camera, so much that it’s not just ham, but ham AND cheese.
8. Say cheese for the camera. Or parrot. That creepy school photographer trying to get you to smile.
9. Cheese, it’s what’s for dinner. No, wait, that’s for Beef. Ah. Behold! The power of cheese!
10. The man in the moon.
11. (Bonus Cheese!) “Do my hands smell like cheese?” A line from a forgotten sitcom with that actress, what’s her name, from Moonlighting? Oh yes, Cybill Shepherd.
Your turn. Spill your cheese!
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Reader Comments (2)
1. I could eat cheese forever, but I would probably get the gout, like Ben Franklin.
2. String Cheese, both the delicious food and the jam band.
3. Cheese that goes on pizza, and how much I love pizza when it's covered with cheese--and pretty much any other topping.
4. Not anchovies.
5. When I go to dinner at my mom's house, she usually puts out some cheese to munch on as an appetizer. But then my appetite gets appetized, and I'm not hungry for dinner. But dinner is delicious, so I eat it anyway. That's how I get fat.
6. Philly cheesesteak - gotta have cheese whiz.
7. There are so many different varieties of cheese, with such a myriad of properties, and still I love almost all of them.
8. You can give me cheddar, but it had better be sharp.
9. Is American cheese really cheese?
10. Yum.
Someone once told me that in Canada, American Cheese is called Canadian Cheese. I wonder if that's true?