# TAR 4/14: "My Cheese Is Out Of Control" **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [April 14, 2013, 10:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tar-4-14-my-cheese-is-out-of-control/655725 "2013-04-14T22:30:47Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![kiz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/7feea3/32.png) [@kiz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kiz)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2013, 10:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tar-4-14-my-cheese-is-out-of-control/655725/1 "2013-04-14T22:30:47Z")
Placeholder! Remember a couple of seasons back when teams had to lug huge wheels of cheese up a steep hill and had to slide them down using wheelbarrows or some such other thing(s)? They’re revisiting the task – this time, in snow :brrrrr: Oh, there may be delays on the East coast due to the Masters. ---
**Author:** ![jayjay](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jayjay/32/6765_2.png) [@jayjay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jayjay)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2013, 10:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tar-4-14-my-cheese-is-out-of-control/655725/2 "2013-04-14T22:38:11Z")
Yeah, I saw the previews and kind of yelped, 'The cheese is back!" Hope there are lots of snickering Swiss watching them crash-land… ---
**Author:** ![Edward\_The\_Head](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ce73a5/32.png) [@Edward\_The\_Head](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Edward_The_Head)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2013, 11:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tar-4-14-my-cheese-is-out-of-control/655725/3 "2013-04-14T23:01:11Z")
There will be delays now that there’s a tie. I can’t wait for the cheese as well, that was so funny the last time! ---
**Author:** ![fiddlesticks](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fiddlesticks/32/18129_2.png) [@fiddlesticks](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fiddlesticks)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2013, 11:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tar-4-14-my-cheese-is-out-of-control/655725/4 "2013-04-14T23:30:49Z")
7:30 Eastern and they’re on the 2nd hole of the playoff. ---
**Author:** ![fiddlesticks](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fiddlesticks/32/18129_2.png) [@fiddlesticks](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fiddlesticks)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2013, 11:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tar-4-14-my-cheese-is-out-of-control/655725/5 "2013-04-14T23:40:20Z")
And the Masters is over, guessing they’ll start 60 Minutes at 7:45 or so. ---
**Author:** ![Sally\_Mander](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e56c9b/32.png) [@Sally\_Mander](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sally_Mander)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2013, 11:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tar-4-14-my-cheese-is-out-of-control/655725/6 "2013-04-14T23:50:48Z")
It’s 7:50 and they’re still blathering on about freaking golf. And we still have to get through _60 Minutes_. Who was it a few weeks ago that commented that the world could be coming to an end and CBS would \*\*still \*\*show _60 Minutes_ in its entirety? I’d laugh, but I’m sitting here screaming at the golf people to just shut the hell up. ---
**Author:** ![Eyebrows\_0f\_Doom](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eyebrows_0f_doom/32/3119_2.png) [@Eyebrows\_0f\_Doom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eyebrows_0f_Doom)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2013, 11:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tar-4-14-my-cheese-is-out-of-control/655725/7 "2013-04-14T23:52:38Z")
Geez, even the basketball and football didn’t make it start _an hour_ late! ---
**Author:** ![fiddlesticks](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fiddlesticks/32/18129_2.png) [@fiddlesticks](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fiddlesticks)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2013, 11:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tar-4-14-my-cheese-is-out-of-control/655725/8 "2013-04-14T23:59:45Z")
Ah geez, just realized my local CBS station is showing the Spurs at 8pm (Central), so AR will get aired sometime after midnight here. Wonderful. ---
**Author:** ![jayjay](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jayjay/32/6765_2.png) [@jayjay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jayjay)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2013, 12:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tar-4-14-my-cheese-is-out-of-control/655725/9 "2013-04-15T00:12:44Z")
> [@Sally\_Mander](#): > > Who was it a few weeks ago that commented that the world could be coming to an end and CBS would \*\*still \*\*show _60 Minutes_ in its entirety? I’d laugh, but I’m sitting here screaming at the golf people to just shut the hell up. Probably me. I seem to remember posting something like that. And the official word is 8:59PM for the beginning of TAR. ---
**Author:** ![Sally\_Mander](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e56c9b/32.png) [@Sally\_Mander](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sally_Mander)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2013, 1:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tar-4-14-my-cheese-is-out-of-control/655725/10 "2013-04-15T01:43:18Z")
You know, I always like to root for the underdog, and was really wanting to give Chuck and Wynonna a chance, but good God almighty, she’s a whiny little bitch. ---
**Author:** ![Sally\_Mander](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e56c9b/32.png) [@Sally\_Mander](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sally_Mander)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2013, 1:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tar-4-14-my-cheese-is-out-of-control/655725/11 "2013-04-15T01:54:07Z")
Sometimes they have to go back and properly complete a task, and sometimes they just get a time penalty. What determines which one happens? ---
**Author:** ![Robot\_Arm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/robot_arm/32/18280_2.png) [@Robot\_Arm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Robot_Arm)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2013, 1:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tar-4-14-my-cheese-is-out-of-control/655725/12 "2013-04-15T01:58:08Z")
> [@Sally\_Mander](#): > > Sometimes they have to go back and properly complete a task, and sometimes they just get a time penalty. What determines which one happens? In this case, the sheer impossibility of Wynona getting up that hill again. ---
**Author:** ![USCDiver](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/uscdiver/32/354_2.png) [@USCDiver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/USCDiver)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2013, 2:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tar-4-14-my-cheese-is-out-of-control/655725/13 "2013-04-15T02:06:07Z")
> [@Robot\_Arm](#): > > In this case, the sheer impossibility of Wynona getting up that hill again. Not to mention the very real possibility of acute altitude sickness if she tried. ---
**Author:** ![Sally\_Mander](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e56c9b/32.png) [@Sally\_Mander](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sally_Mander)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2013, 2:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tar-4-14-my-cheese-is-out-of-control/655725/14 "2013-04-15T02:12:52Z")
> [@Robot\_Arm](#): > > In this case, the sheer impossibility of Wynona getting up that hill again. 😃 I didn’t even think of that… ---
**Author:** ![jayjay](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jayjay/32/6765_2.png) [@jayjay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jayjay)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2013, 2:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tar-4-14-my-cheese-is-out-of-control/655725/15 "2013-04-15T02:15:31Z")
I thought about this the first time they did the “get the cheese down the hill” task and again tonight. WHY would you store your cheese half a mile from your barn up a 60 degree grade? ---
**Author:** ![AncientHumanoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ancienthumanoid/32/278_2.png) [@AncientHumanoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AncientHumanoid)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2013, 2:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tar-4-14-my-cheese-is-out-of-control/655725/16 "2013-04-15T02:22:09Z")
That’s where the space aliens deliver it. They are afraid of barns. ---
**Author:** ![Sally\_Mander](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e56c9b/32.png) [@Sally\_Mander](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sally_Mander)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2013, 2:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tar-4-14-my-cheese-is-out-of-control/655725/17 "2013-04-15T02:23:57Z")
Maybe the extra bit of altitude helps with the aging process? Yeah, I got nothing… ---
**Author:** ![Robot\_Arm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/robot_arm/32/18280_2.png) [@Robot\_Arm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Robot_Arm)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2013, 2:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tar-4-14-my-cheese-is-out-of-control/655725/18 "2013-04-15T02:40:44Z")
> [@jayjay](#): > > I thought about this the first time they did the “get the cheese down the hill” task and again tonight. WHY would you store your cheese half a mile from your barn up a 60 degree grade? Don’t knock it, it got them on TAR _twice_. ---
**Author:** ![Shoeless](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/shoeless/32/7099_2.png) [@Shoeless](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shoeless)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2013, 2:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tar-4-14-my-cheese-is-out-of-control/655725/19 "2013-04-15T02:49:30Z")
> [@Eyebrows\_0f\_Doom](#): > > Geez, even the basketball and football didn’t make it start _an hour_ late! You know, sometimes I chuckle at how bent out of shape people get in the TAR threads when the show is pushed back because of a football or basketball game running late. I guess that’s because I like football and basketball and so I don’t mind it that much. But I hate golf on TV and I hate Jim Nantz even more, so tonight after watching the playoff round of the Masters and listening to all of his post-tournament blather I found myself yelling at the TV “Get ON with it! Nobody CARES!” So… yeah I guess now I know how you people feel. As for Chuck and Wynona, they pretty much foreshadowed their last place finish in the first five minutes with the “we’re starting to race better now” comment. I knew at that moment that they were doomed. ---
**Author:** ![notfrommensa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/f14d63/32.png) [@notfrommensa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/notfrommensa)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2013, 3:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tar-4-14-my-cheese-is-out-of-control/655725/20 "2013-04-15T03:30:46Z")
> [@Robot\_Arm](#): > > In this case, the sheer impossibility of Wynona getting up that hill again. And no one wants to see Chuck stick his head up Wynona’s HooHaa again! [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tar-4-14-my-cheese-is-out-of-control/655725.md?page=2)