That government “cheese” is really, um, interesting. It has a consistency somewhere between Velveeta and basic ‘merican cheese in a five pound uncut brick.
I’ve just discovered that if you read the Wikipedia entries on Government cheese and American cheese, the word “cheese” starts to look increasingly silly, and by the end of the article it’s hard to make any sense of the sentences. (They are perfectly sensible sentences. Just cheese overload.)
I’ve encountered it in other circumstances (it happens with your name if you have a lot of papers to sign…) but never with cheese. No, I mean never previously on Wikipedia.
I said to Unity, “Well, darn, girl!
What are you doing in this barn, girl?”
It’s no mistake!
Her job’s to break
In here, and take
The milk, and make
Free cheese, please! Oh yeah,
It’s cheese for free!
So many programs get the axes,
This one makes good use of our taxes!
It’s underground!
We sneak around,
You’ll be astound-
-Ed when you’ve found
Free cheese, please! Oh yeah,
Please have some Brie!
Cheddar, baby swiss, or muenster,
Making sneaky cheese is fun, sir!
Join me!
It’s a tummy-filler
In a two-point-seven kilo-
Gram cube! And plus,
I’m touching bovine boob!
We use the cheese for foreign aid, too!
We tell our allies, “Now we’ve paid you!”
It’s just the way
We work today!
We’re gonna pay
The Kurds with whey!
Free cheese, please! Oh yeah,
Clan-des-tine-ly! Oh yeah,
My gouda-ness me! Oh yeah,
It’s cheese for free!
The Skin Horse folks should team up with the government cheese people. They’re clearly not an A-sig program. (Or a republican one. Or one bounded by mere sanity)
Now I really wonder what they have Moustachio doing.
Today’s strip was unusually educational. I had only heard of the government cheese program in terms of emergency aid supplies.
This strip, however, also suggests that Skin Horse was not the only Black Ops Social Services program. I wonder if Sweetheart is currently working for a different one of those. I mean, someone has to be helping all of those Huskies and Akitas affected by global warming.
Maybe she was transferred back to Canada to guard the global strategic maple syrup reserve. There was a heist of it not too long ago, so they could use some incresed security.
I first read about the Great Strategic Maple Syrup Heist on Kevin Underhill’s excellent legal humour blog (yes, really) Lowering the Bar. (http://loweringthebar.net/)
That last line may be my new favorite quote!
It’s a good one, yet as far as character goes I don’t know where to start.
Okay, yes I do. How did her date with Bubbles go?
I honestly don’t think it ever came about in the aftermath of the Terrible Horrible No Good Very Bad Day. There was just so much to think about…
Ah, so the government cheese program never went away, it just went underground.
So “government cheese” is really a thing… yet another Kingdom of Loathing reference explicated.
Yay Kingdom of Loathing! I’d be kind of worried if Unity got her hands on some anti-cheese though.
That government “cheese” is really, um, interesting. It has a consistency somewhere between Velveeta and basic ‘merican cheese in a five pound uncut brick.
And was rather salty from what I remember of it. Not horrible, okay, but salty.
I’ve just discovered that if you read the Wikipedia entries on Government cheese and American cheese, the word “cheese” starts to look increasingly silly, and by the end of the article it’s hard to make any sense of the sentences. (They are perfectly sensible sentences. Just cheese overload.)
Gaze in wonder at the phenomenon of semantic satiation.
Also: cheese cheese cheese cheese cheese cheese cheese cheese cheese cheese cheese cheese cheese cheese cheese cheese cheese cheese cheese cheese cheese cheese. You’re welcome.
Are you referring to Monty Python’s “Spam”, perchance?
I’ve encountered it in other circumstances (it happens with your name if you have a lot of papers to sign…) but never with cheese. No, I mean never previously on Wikipedia.
That doesn’t sound like something I’d ever want to eat, but I could see it in an emergency.
I have eaten it, as a child. It is better than starving.
If it’s being made by nanotech zombies, that might explain some of the peculiarities.
I would LOVE to have some nanotech ala “The Diamond Age” to help my immune system before the next disease outbreak.
How is that like Inception?
In Inception you break into someone’s mind while they’re sleeping to plant an idea into their head.
In this you break into someone’s fridge while they’re sleeping to plant a block of cheeze into their fridge.
Isn’t it more like culinary gaslighting?
But I don’t like cheese!
Robert? Not even … Wensleydale?
(TUNE: “Please Please Me”, The Beatles)
I said to Unity, “Well, darn, girl!
What are you doing in this barn, girl?”
It’s no mistake!
Her job’s to break
In here, and take
The milk, and make
Free cheese, please! Oh yeah,
It’s cheese for free!
So many programs get the axes,
This one makes good use of our taxes!
It’s underground!
We sneak around,
You’ll be astound-
-Ed when you’ve found
Free cheese, please! Oh yeah,
Please have some Brie!
Cheddar, baby swiss, or muenster,
Making sneaky cheese is fun, sir!
Join me!
It’s a tummy-filler
In a two-point-seven kilo-
Gram cube! And plus,
I’m touching bovine boob!
We use the cheese for foreign aid, too!
We tell our allies, “Now we’ve paid you!”
It’s just the way
We work today!
We’re gonna pay
The Kurds with whey!
Free cheese, please! Oh yeah,
Clan-des-tine-ly! Oh yeah,
My gouda-ness me! Oh yeah,
It’s cheese for free!
Oh, I eat cheese when it comes with something…I don’t seek it out and it doesn’t seek me out. Or so I thought till reading today’s strip.
I thought you were making a “Wallace and Gromit” reference.
Never seen any of ’em, at least not all the way through. (Did look like fun, but time is short.) Took “Wensleydale” as a Monty Python reference.
“The Kurds with whey!” You’re killing me!!! (Seriously, I’m lactose intolerant.)
I wouldn’t be surprised to find out the Gov’ment Cheese was also part of our plan to air strike IS, too!
Is that cheese Halal?
No, it’s Velveel. -ta.
–Dave, cue the Uncle Bonsai song “Family Restaurant”
“Don’t eat the Gov’ment cheese!”
I came from a poor family. Goverment cheese was not bad. Tad salty like Klyfix said, Kept many people who couldn’t buy stuff alive.
I agree. Still, I’d like it if they’d add nanotech instead of salt, so I could at least arm-wrestle Unity to a draw.
Messing with Unity’s nanotech is likely to come with side effects. http://skin-horse.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/x2009-10-28-About-twenty-percent.jpg.pagespeed.ic.L5IALivwG0.jpg
The Skin Horse folks should team up with the government cheese people. They’re clearly not an A-sig program. (Or a republican one. Or one bounded by mere sanity)
Now I really wonder what they have Moustachio doing.
Today’s strip was unusually educational. I had only heard of the government cheese program in terms of emergency aid supplies.
This strip, however, also suggests that Skin Horse was not the only Black Ops Social Services program. I wonder if Sweetheart is currently working for a different one of those. I mean, someone has to be helping all of those Huskies and Akitas affected by global warming.
It seems too obvious and ordinary, but I keep expecting to see Sweetheart herding sheep…
Black Ops black sheep (have you any wool)?
Maybe she was transferred back to Canada to guard the global strategic maple syrup reserve. There was a heist of it not too long ago, so they could use some incresed security.
…I am in Awe. Whether or not it’s true, that’s my headcanon until proven otherwise.
I first read about the Great Strategic Maple Syrup Heist on Kevin Underhill’s excellent legal humour blog (yes, really) Lowering the Bar. (http://loweringthebar.net/)
I think this is my favourite strip so far.
I have a feeling they only kept her because mell is now in a position where she can do that, I am fearful.
By the way, it’s called an “udder,” Unity.
And now I’ve got this stuck in my head: “We are Fletcher’s American Cheese / Choral society / Fletcher’s American Cheeeeese / Choral sociiiiiiety!”
Now if the combined the government cheese with pork programs and some cracker barrel legislation, we might have a healthy meal here.
Shadow Cheese is a good name for a band.
I wish this was a real thing. I could probably eat a pound a cheese a day.
I don’t think your digestive system would appreciate that.
Honestly we could use a program like that right about now…