Rock Hard Facts

-Many people assume that the photographer's battle cry, "say cheese," was cultivated by observing that the word cheese makes us smile. Think about it: have you ever smiled while saying the word cheese (not counting times when you've been hungry for hours and ran across a table of cheese)? The true origins come from France. But they spell it the French way (Cest cheese!), which means "that cheese!" We all know French people love cheese (fact). They will eat cheese out of a dying rhinoceros's asshole (fact). We also know that French people don't smile (fact). The thought of cheese is the only thing that can crack a smile on a French person's face (fact). So, photographers started saying "cest cheese!" to make them smile (yet another fact).

Now, if you said "that cheese" to an American, you'd probably get a "what?" or "where?" from them. That is because Americans are smarter than the French (fact). French people smile at the word "cheese" in the same pavlovian fashion that my dog freaks out when she hears the word "walk." In fact, you have to spell out the word cheese around the French, which is also like my dog...except, Tasha learned what W-A-L-K means because she is smart (for a dog and/or Frenchman).