Weird thoughts

[ffutures]

Hmmm...

Why has the line "Cry Havoc, and let loose the cheese of war" popped into my head?

Think I need more sleep. Or a Wallace and Gromit marathon. Or both.

Comments

[jordan179.livejournal.com]

It suggests a really weird military technology.

[dsample.livejournal.com]

Mythbusters recently tried out cheese as cannon ammunition. It was a struggle to find a cheese that was hard enough, without being too crumbly. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Garrotxa_cheese worked reasonably well.

[ffutures.livejournal.com]

I suppose a Gouda in the red wax casing would work reasonably well too.

[ffutures.livejournal.com]

Well, Discworld dwarves use bread as lethal weapons, why not cheese?

[karohemd.livejournal.com]

You were hungry?

[ffutures.livejournal.com]

Not especially.

[saranjeuhal.livejournal.com]

"And thus but for the gorgonzola of God, went I..."

[ffutures.livejournal.com]

Sorry, I think I'm missing context here.

[raygungothic.livejournal.com]

I would have thought Wallace would oppose the militarisation of his beloved cheese.

[ffutures.livejournal.com]

And the first thought that popped into my head when I read that was something about the "Cheese militant." I thought I'd used every possible cheese joke when I wrote my Buffy / W&G crossover, but apparently not.