[Osx-nutters] "As mad as cheese"

[Matt Johnston]

On 29 Oct 2006, at 17:05, Stefano Mori wrote:

>
> On 2006-Oct-29, at 16:16, Patrick Coskren wrote:
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>>> Thanks, I'm always looking to improve my English.
>>
>> You're not a native speaker?  I'm very impressed.
>
> :-D actually I believed Matt when he said that the correct  
> expression was "envious as butter", and about, um, 15 minutes later  
> it dawned on me that he made that up.

I did, but then that's how all these things appear. "mad as cheese"  
is a recent thing and used by the Register to prove that they're  
wacky guys, full of spunk and all that.

> Or did he?

Does it matter. If it sounds right, use it.

Mad as a stick I use a lot. I never really worried about how it  
sounded. Similarly a battlecry from a 1990s superhero game, cribbed  
from some TV program, "you're going home in a fucking ambulance" is  
now used as a term of endearment.

I love English because it's so flexible.

> Anyways, I thought I'd fess up to my credulity by thanking him for  
> the new "lesson". My mum was Scottish, and I grew up in English  
> speaking schools starting from age 10, so it is my only language  
> now. Guess I should change my name to Stephen Moore?

Ye gods, no.

We like Stefano.

M