{"id":1204,"date":"2016-12-13T14:22:47","date_gmt":"2016-12-13T01:22:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kiwistreet.co.nz\/wordpress\/?p=1204"},"modified":"2016-12-13T14:22:47","modified_gmt":"2016-12-13T01:22:47","slug":"cheese-em-off","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.kiwistreet.co.nz\/wordpress\/?p=1204","title":{"rendered":"Cheese \u2018em off"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.kiwistreet.co.nz\/wordpress\/?attachment_id=1203\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-1203\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-1203\" src=\"http:\/\/www.kiwistreet.co.nz\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/RayColumbus-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.kiwistreet.co.nz\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/RayColumbus-300x300.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.kiwistreet.co.nz\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/RayColumbus-150x150.jpg 150w, http:\/\/www.kiwistreet.co.nz\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/RayColumbus.jpg 445w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>The recent passing of Ray Columbus reminded me of a friend of mine who used to wander about singing one of Ray\u2019s greatest hits: <em>Cheese \u2018Em Off<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>\u2018Cheese \u2018em off, cheese \u2018em off, cheese \u2018em off.\u00a0 Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.\u00a0 Cheese \u2018em off, cheese \u2018em off.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>\u2018I think you\u2019ll find he\u2019s singing: She\u2019s a mod,\u2019 I suggested.<\/p>\n<p>But Ian wasn\u2019t convinced.\u00a0 \u2018Cheese \u2018em off, cheese \u2018em off \u2026.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>You can understand why song lyrics are sometimes misheard.\u00a0 The singer\u2019s diction is not always the best.\u00a0 And there\u2019s often complicated harmonies and instrumental stuff happening at the same time that the lyrics are being sung.\u00a0 But I\u2019m a little surprised at how often plain old fashioned idioms are misheard \u2013 or simply mangled.<\/p>\n<p>Another friend of mine, a meticulous wordsmith, had a minor meltdown recently when someone who should have known better found themselves \u2018on tenderhooks\u2019.<\/p>\n<p>\u2018<em>Tenter<\/em>hooks,\u2019 Trish suggested, helpfully.\u00a0 But to no avail.<\/p>\n<p>That was just a few days after someone had told me that \u2018to all intense purposes\u2019 the result would be the same.\u00a0 And, a few sentences later, \u2018in pointed fact\u2019 it wouldn\u2019t make any difference anyway.\u00a0 He would still need to \u2018jump through red tape\u2019 to get what he wanted.<\/p>\n<p>\u2018Can you hear music?\u2019 I asked.<\/p>\n<p>The fellow looked at me strangely.\u00a0 \u2018What?\u00a0 Now?\u00a0 No.\u00a0 Why?\u2019<\/p>\n<p>\u2018I just wondered if there was music getting in the way of your words.\u00a0 You know \u2026 Cheese \u2018em off, cheese \u2018em off.\u2019<\/p>\n<p><em>Thanks for the memories, Ray.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The recent passing of Ray Columbus reminded me of a friend of mine who used to wander about singing one of Ray\u2019s greatest hits: Cheese \u2018Em Off. \u2018Cheese \u2018em off, cheese \u2018em off, cheese \u2018em off.\u00a0 Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.\u00a0 &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kiwistreet.co.nz\/wordpress\/?p=1204\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.kiwistreet.co.nz\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1204"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.kiwistreet.co.nz\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.kiwistreet.co.nz\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.kiwistreet.co.nz\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.kiwistreet.co.nz\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1204"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.kiwistreet.co.nz\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1204\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1205,"href":"http:\/\/www.kiwistreet.co.nz\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1204\/revisions\/1205"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.kiwistreet.co.nz\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1204"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.kiwistreet.co.nz\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1204"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.kiwistreet.co.nz\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1204"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}