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Phew! This epic story of adventure has had a happy ending:

Earth landing for 'space cheese'

A block of cheese launched into the upper atmosphere on Tuesday has been found undamaged in Buckinghamshire.

The "interstellar cheddar" landed in Cressex - some 74 miles away - and was taken to High Wycombe police station on Wednesday night, the launch team said.

The wedge was still in one piece but the flight-recording camera had failed.
[. . .]

It was found in a garden and handed in to the police, the group said. [. . .]

Dom Lane, of Shepton Mallet's West Country Farmhouse Cheesemakers group told BBC News: "I am driving back from High Wycombe with the cheese now. I may try a bit to see if it has matured at high altitude [. . .]"

The cheese's autobiography, Been High So Long It Looks Like Down to Me, has been sold
for a seven-figure sum to HarperCollins, purveyors of yer classy celebrity autobiographies (motto: "Publish and Be Edammed"), with movie rights optioned by DreamWorks.


Date: 2009-07-29 10:44 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] jongibbs.livejournal.com
Lol. I missed the, truly awful, Edam pun the first time around :)

The cheese from another world

Date: 2009-07-29 10:52 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] ffutures.livejournal.com
It's cheese, Gromit, but not as we know it...

Actually I wrote this once as an RPG adventure - first Lunar expedition brings back cheese which takes over the astronauts a la Quatermass.

Date: 2009-07-30 12:58 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] sarcobatus.livejournal.com
For some reason this cheese expedition reminds me of the British flick, "The Mouse That Roared", or some such. Or maybe I'm thinking of Spam . . .

Date: 2009-07-30 08:42 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] fledgist.livejournal.com
The prose seems a bit Stilton.

Date: 2009-07-30 09:07 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] realthog.livejournal.com

"The prose seems a bit Stilton."

I didn't write it! It was as if it just sort of grew there . . .

Date: 2009-07-31 12:34 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] fledgist.livejournal.com
That's a rather mouldy reply.

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