I always thought that "Cheese it!" was a more polite way of saying "Jesus!"

You couldn't get away (in old movies) with saying "Jesus! The cops!" But "Cheese it" would manage to get around the Hays Office censors.

Of course, I've also seen people working in a local McDonald's turn a pre-made hamburger into a cheeseburger by shouting "Cheese it!" rolleyes


Signor V.

"For me, there's only my wife..."

"Sure I cook with wine - sometimes I even add it to the food!"

"When life itself seems lunatic, who knows where madness lies?"

"It was a grass harp... And we listened."

"Do any human beings ever realize life while they live it? Every, every minute?"

"No. Saints and poets, maybe... they do some."