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by anonymous on August 14th, 2006

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Where did the idea that the moon was made of cheese come from?

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  • by Jack Dack on August 14th, 2006

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    It came from Wallace and Gromit when they went to space and found cheese on the moon.

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  • by Kevisaurus is a Carnotaurus today on July 12th, 2008

    Kevisaurus is a Carnotaurus today

    In 1958, Doctor Ivan Sleazy Cheesy of the Cheesology Institute of the University of Cambridge embarked on an eye-opening investigation to find out if the moon was indeed made of cheese. His reports were so startling that there was a government conspiracy which had them used for toilet paper, so his findings were never published, until today.

    So read on to discover... Cheese taste good. I hope the moon is made out of mozzerala.
    http://uncyclopedia.org/wiki/Is_the_moon_made_of_cheese%3F

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  • by RFlagg on August 21st, 2006

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    I'd say it may have been perpetuated by parents needing an explanation when there kids asked what the moon was made of, so some smartass dad came up with that BS explanation for it.

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  • by yoho05 reminds you to DYOH on August 14th, 2006

    yoho05 reminds you to DYOH

    Straight from The Straight Dope

    Dear Cecil:

    How did the myth about the moon being made out of cheese start? --Yoshi1009, via AOL

    Dear Yoshi:

    That's the problem with being a smartass. You unload some priceless bon mot and 400 years later, out of context, you sound like an idiot. Here's an early green cheese citation from John Heywood's Proverbes (1546): "The moon is made of a greene cheese," greene meaning new, unaged. One can find similar quotes in the works of Francois Rabelais and Thomas More. I'm hearing sarcasm here, but in that era before ;-) one can't be sure. Other citations are clearer: "You may as soon persuade some Country Peasants, that the Moon is made of Green Cheese (as we say) as that 'tis bigger than his Cart-wheel" (Wilkins, New World 1, 1638), the implication being that Luna's non-cheesiosity was not a matter regarding which even the rustics were in doubt.

    http://www.straightdope.com/classics/a990723a.html

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  • by gaelyn on August 14th, 2006

    gaelyn

    from Wikipedia:
    "In 1546, John Heywood wrote in Proverbes that "the moon is made of a greene cheese." (Greene refers here not to the color, as many now think, but to being new or unaged.)[3] Variations on this sentiment were long repeated. Although some people assumed that this was a serious belief in the era before space exploration, it is more likely that Heywood was indulging in nonsense."

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