#126 – Circled
Posted on May 30, 2011 at 12:00 am by Chris
Chapter: Comic
I wonder if the whole “The Moon is made of cheese” story captured people’s attentions more back before humans had been there. I remember seeing it like that in old cartoons and thinking “What? That’s not right.” We would have found the space cows by now.
Today’s Biff needs a drink of water.
Tags: dog, moon, sleep, wordless
Maybe the whole moon-cheese thing came from Norse mythology where the first living thing was a giant cow.
Beneath the moon’s crust,
The herds are hidden from sight,
By the space cowboys.
Well, I like the joke.
I remember being told as a child that the moon is covered in crevices, some as deep as 50 feet. Usually, space dust filled these crevices in and sometimes, people get stuck in them.l
@Baughbe,didnt the norse also belive in a giant wolf?
yes. from what i remeber the wolf was in love with the moon and chased her around the sky. or something like that.
we had a dog that would do this. curiously, if she couldn’t find a blanket or something to bury herself in than she’d just cover her nose with her paws and fall asleep that way…
Earth’s land mass is shaped like a moose’s head. At least to me it looks like that.
http://www.straightdope.com/columns/read/1340/how-did-the-moon-green-cheese-myth-start
Supposedly the moon/green cheese bit came from a quotation saying, essentially, that you’d have an easier time convincing a yokel that the moon was made of fresh cheese than that it was bigger than a cart wheel.