h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

No, I don't need anything explained, any more than I need attitude for asking the question. I'll leave those of you who already know everything to it, then.

Ugh. I totally flew off the handle and acted like a really big ass. I'm sorry, Reddyfreddy. Can I plead temporary insanity?

(I still don't get the joke, though... and I still think beaver cheese sounds like the result of poor hygiene. )

Psst... I think that's the joke.

Hmm. Kinda like the old joke from when I was a kid, about "fromunda" cheese. It comes from unda your...

Ah, cheese jokes.

What kind of cheese belongs to someone else?
Nacho cheese.

* induced *

Hey, no worries Psychocandy.

The cheese shop joke is a Monty Python sketch, where a hungry customer goes into a cheese shop, and starts asking for various kinds of cheese.

The cheese shop owner responds to each request by saying they don't have that particular cheese.

Amongst the highlights are:

"Venezuelan beaver cheese?"
"Not TODAY, sir"

and

"I know, I know...CHEDDAR"
"Sorry sir"
"What do you mean, SORRY?" It's the single most popular cheese in the WORLD!"
"Not round here, sir"

It end with the customer saying

"Not much of a cheese shop is it?"
"The finest in the district, sir"
"Explain the logic of that last remark"
"Well, it's so clean"
"It's certainly uncontaminated by cheese. Tell me, do you actually have any cheese at all?"

And I'm going to leave it there, as I wouldn't want to spoil the ending.

RF

I told my better half about this one, and he's just made me watch the episode...

Still no excuse for acting like such a c***. But thanks for graciously accepting my apology and 'splaining the joke!

That's one of the few Python sketches I haven't seen yet. Sheesh!! *crawls back under proverbial rock*

blue stilton, stilton with apricots, stilton with ginger , seriously strong cheddar (can't abide 'mousetrap'), port salut, brie, camembert, caerphilly, cheshire, red leicester, roquefort, boursin.........think that's about it for now

Just thought I'd add that the smell of parmesan makes me feel sick so please, never offer me some

Apricot Stilton kicks a**!! I'd nearly forgotten till today, then read this... then went to grocery store!!

Can you get Apricot Stilton across the pond??? of course you can cos you just said so ......am surprised tho!

Yeah, but it costs a FORTUNE!!!

Mmmmmmmmmm but worth it tho

Dutch cheese is nice

It's made backwards.

Ha ha double Dutch

And yet again the subtleties of word play fall wide of the mark.

You started it.

Apricot Stilton? No, no, no, no, no, no!

You *don't* muck about adding pointless stuff to cheeses. Stilton, for example, comes in two forms only: the normal blue; and white, which is blue without the mold added. Sticking random ingredients into cheeses is an abomination.

* wanders off muttering something about the heresy of Huntsman cheese *

**Tries to work out EV's cheese joke and realises it only works in a very Northern accent.**

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