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Cheeses of Nazareth

Posted by R. Berg on January 23, 2002

In Reply to: WWJD - What Would Jesus Do? posted by Spin on January 23, 2002

:
: : : Or sample the cheeses of Nazareth.

: : Try to bring the discussion to a higher plane and look what happens.

: Woohoo!!!
: I like that: the cheeses of Nazareth". I'm going to keep that one right next to my other new favourite exclamation "that (item, current event) pleases my brain!".

: Cheeses of Nazareth:
: "I won't do that for all the cheese in Nazareth!"
: "I'll bet you all the cheese of Nazareth that..."
: "What, by all the cheese of Nazareth, are you talking about?"
: See what I mean? Very spiffy phrase.
: Spin

I once read about an exhibition for which artists were invited to create works out of food. One entry consisted of a pair of hands sculpted from cheese, arranged with some other ingredients. Brace yourself. It was called "The Hands of Cheeses Praying for Peas in Our Thyme."

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