Space Cheese -- soft touchdown

[realthog]

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.

Comments

[jongibbs.livejournal.com]

Lol. I missed the, truly awful, Edam pun the first time around :)

The cheese from another world

[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.

[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 . . .

[fledgist.livejournal.com]

The prose seems a bit Stilton.

[realthog.livejournal.com]

"The prose seems a bit Stilton."

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

[fledgist.livejournal.com]

That's a rather mouldy reply.