# Wisconsin Attacks The World, With 1920's Style Cheese Death Rays! **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [January 14, 2004, 7:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wisconsin-attacks-the-world-with-1920s-style-cheese-death-rays/224434 "2004-01-14T19:46:57Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bosda_di_chi_of_tricor/32/16845_2.png) [@Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosda_Di_Chi_of_Tricor)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2004, 7:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wisconsin-attacks-the-world-with-1920s-style-cheese-death-rays/224434/1 "2004-01-14T19:46:57Z")
Terrifying legions of pot-bellyed, beer-swilling snowmobilers are going to descend on the World from the North (South for Canadians), armed with [Cheese Lasers!](http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=817&ncid=757&e=10&u=/ap/20040113/ap_on_fe_st/cheese_lasers) Only one group of heroes can save us, and Disney won’t re-release _Chip N Dale’s Rescue Rangers!_ We’re doomed! :eek: ---
**Author:** ![jk1245](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/49beb7/32.png) [@jk1245](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jk1245)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2004, 7:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wisconsin-attacks-the-world-with-1920s-style-cheese-death-rays/224434/2 "2004-01-14T19:50:57Z")
Back the F\*\*\* up, Illinois. There’s a new sheriff in town. ---
**Author:** ![2nd\_Law](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/2/f475e1/32.png) [@2nd\_Law](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/2nd_Law)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2004, 8:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wisconsin-attacks-the-world-with-1920s-style-cheese-death-rays/224434/3 "2004-01-14T20:05:04Z")
Yeah, like our neighbors to the north have even needed a laser to cut the cheese… ---
**Author:** ![UWmite](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/d26b3c/32.png) [@UWmite](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/UWmite)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2004, 12:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wisconsin-attacks-the-world-with-1920s-style-cheese-death-rays/224434/4 "2004-01-15T00:54:45Z")
As a UW-Madison alum who is terribly homesick, let me be the first to say God Bless Wisconsin! ---
**Author:** ![Miss\_Purl\_McKnittington](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e9a140/32.png) [@Miss\_Purl\_McKnittington](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miss_Purl_McKnittington)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2004, 1:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wisconsin-attacks-the-world-with-1920s-style-cheese-death-rays/224434/5 "2004-01-15T01:09:04Z")
Heh. I guess the cheesemakers really will inherit the earth. Varsity, varsity, u-rah-rah, Wiiiiiiiscooooonsin. _proceeds with choreographed arm-waving_ ---
**Author:** ![Baggins111](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/9fc29f/32.png) [@Baggins111](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baggins111)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2004, 2:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wisconsin-attacks-the-world-with-1920s-style-cheese-death-rays/224434/6 "2004-01-15T02:01:22Z")
On Wisconsin! On Wisconsin! Grand old 1920’s Stlye Cheese Death Ray State! Having grown up in WI, I was glad to see that the cheese was cut into little Bucky shapes. ---
**Author:** ![Blackeyes](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/f6c823/32.png) [@Blackeyes](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Blackeyes)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2004, 3:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wisconsin-attacks-the-world-with-1920s-style-cheese-death-rays/224434/7 "2004-01-15T03:50:43Z")
> [@](#): > > “At any other university, people would have just laughed. But this is Wisconsin. It’s cheese. And this is no laughing matter,” said Xiaochun Li, a mechanical engineering professor and laser expert. Won’t somebody PLEASE think of the children?! :eek: ---
**Author:** ![leafrog](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/cab0a1/32.png) [@leafrog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/leafrog)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2004, 3:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wisconsin-attacks-the-world-with-1920s-style-cheese-death-rays/224434/8 "2004-01-15T03:50:54Z")
Back when I went to school in a small Wisconsin town, there was a factory nearby which made cheese flavorings. When the wind was just right, a phenomenon known as “Cheeze Breeze” would happen. Imagine rotten cheetos mixed with stockyard. It was enough to \ ---
**Author:** ![LordVor](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/90ced4/32.png) [@LordVor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LordVor)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2004, 4:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wisconsin-attacks-the-world-with-1920s-style-cheese-death-rays/224434/9 "2004-01-15T04:58:32Z")
> [@lillalette](#): > > Varsity, varsity, u-rah-rah, Wiiiiiiiscooooonsin. _proceeds with choreographed arm-waving_ **SING!** -lv ---
**Author:** ![Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bosda_di_chi_of_tricor/32/16845_2.png) [@Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosda_Di_Chi_of_Tricor)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2004, 2:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wisconsin-attacks-the-world-with-1920s-style-cheese-death-rays/224434/10 "2004-01-15T14:50:35Z")
> [@Blackeyes](#): > > Won’t somebody PLEASE think of the children?! :eek: Why? Are the children made of Cheese? You have to capitalize the word “Cheese”–Wisconsin State law. ---
**Author:** ![RTFirefly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c77e96/32.png) [@RTFirefly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RTFirefly)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2004, 4:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wisconsin-attacks-the-world-with-1920s-style-cheese-death-rays/224434/11 "2004-01-15T16:06:58Z")
> [@UWmite](#): > > As a UW-Madison alum who is terribly homesick, let me be the first to say God Bless Wisconsin! As someone who knows what the UW-Madison mascot is, let me be the first to say: [Badger badger badger badger…](http://www.albinoblacksheep.com/flash/badgers.php) ---
**Author:** ![Ferret\_Herder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/e47774/32.png) [@Ferret\_Herder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ferret_Herder)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2004, 5:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wisconsin-attacks-the-world-with-1920s-style-cheese-death-rays/224434/12 "2004-01-15T17:09:46Z")
> [@RTFirefly](#): > > As someone who knows what the UW-Madison mascot is, let me be the first to say: > > [Badger badger badger badger…](http://www.albinoblacksheep.com/flash/badgers.php) We UW alums know that we already had a badger song! “If you want to be a Badger, just come along with me, by the bright shining light of the moon…” ---
**Author:** ![Miss\_Purl\_McKnittington](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e9a140/32.png) [@Miss\_Purl\_McKnittington](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miss_Purl_McKnittington)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2004, 7:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wisconsin-attacks-the-world-with-1920s-style-cheese-death-rays/224434/13 "2004-01-16T07:26:34Z")
> [@Ferret Herder](#): > > We UW alums know that we already had a badger song! “If you want to be a Badger, just come along with me, by the bright shining light of the moon…” I went to the Badger Girls basketball game (seats on the floor!) Tuesday night with my grandma, and now all I can think of is Bucky leading a lady badger by the hand, while singing “By the Light of the Silvery Moon.” (Not necessarily because my grandma looks like a badger.) And there’s nothing like watching your 68-year old, five foot nothing grandmother enthusiastically booing the horrible call in the second half, which gave one of the Gebisa sisters (I think) a personal foul, though it was pretty clear the Illini was at fault. Sarah – merrily highjacking the thread ---
**Author:** ![Marley23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2004, 2:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wisconsin-attacks-the-world-with-1920s-style-cheese-death-rays/224434/14 "2004-01-16T14:04:25Z")
All I wanted was sharks with frickin’ cheese-slicing laser beams on their heads! ---
**Author:** ![The\_Punkyova](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/b9e5f3/32.png) [@The\_Punkyova](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Punkyova)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2004, 5:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wisconsin-attacks-the-world-with-1920s-style-cheese-death-rays/224434/15 "2004-01-16T17:58:14Z")
> [@leafrog](#): > > Back when I went to school in a small Wisconsin town, there was a factory nearby which made cheese flavorings. > > When the wind was just right, a phenomenon known as “Cheeze Breeze” would happen. Imagine rotten cheetos mixed with stockyard. It was enough to > > \ **Leafrog** , I think you and I went to the same school. About an hour south of Madison, right on the border? What year did you graduate? Where are you now? The Punkyova, 1987, St. Paul ---
**Author:** ![Tamex](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ccd318/32.png) [@Tamex](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tamex)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2004, 7:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wisconsin-attacks-the-world-with-1920s-style-cheese-death-rays/224434/16 "2004-01-16T19:35:11Z")
I must forward this thread to my husband. He grew up in Wisconsin, and he’s a mechanical engineer who works with UV lasers, but I doubt that he would _ever_ have thought of this particular application. He’s going to start thinking that he chose the wrong school after all… …but, if you hadn’t come to Minnesota, you’d never have met me. Remember that. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![leafrog](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/cab0a1/32.png) [@leafrog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/leafrog)\ **Post date:** [February 1, 2004, 7:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wisconsin-attacks-the-world-with-1920s-style-cheese-death-rays/224434/17 "2004-02-01T07:10:28Z")
Hey, **Punkyova** , we were at good old Belwah at the same time, though I was two years younger than you. I didn’t graduate from there, just spent my freshman and sophmore years there ('85-'87). I’m in the Seattle area now…there are a few things I miss about Beloit, especially the yearly trivia contest and swimming in the flooded streets each fall. That’s about it, though! ---
**Author:** ![Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e8c25b/32.png) [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Really_Not_All_That_Bright)\ **Post date:** [February 1, 2004, 8:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wisconsin-attacks-the-world-with-1920s-style-cheese-death-rays/224434/18 "2004-02-01T08:21:15Z")
I am soooooooo never visiting Wisconsin. You people are scary. ---
**Author:** ![Aureos](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ba9def/32.png) [@Aureos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Aureos)\ **Post date:** [February 1, 2004, 3:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wisconsin-attacks-the-world-with-1920s-style-cheese-death-rays/224434/19 "2004-02-01T15:26:39Z")
Not only did I live in WI for awhile, but I actually worked in the AMPI (we called it ARMPIT) cheese factory for awhile. (jobs are very scarce _sob_) But…now I am moving back. Going to Milwaukee this time. Next week. wheeee ---
**Author:** ![MsRobyn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/90ced4/32.png) [@MsRobyn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MsRobyn)\ **Post date:** [February 1, 2004, 4:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wisconsin-attacks-the-world-with-1920s-style-cheese-death-rays/224434/20 "2004-02-01T16:20:41Z")
Actually, laser cheese-cutters are a good idea. If the cheese is cut with a laser beam, it means there’s nothing physically touching the cheese that can get cross-contaminated. No cross-contamination means less food poisoning from bad cheese. Robin [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wisconsin-attacks-the-world-with-1920s-style-cheese-death-rays/224434.md?page=2)