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...People who attribute grammatically incorrect statements to unsuspecting housecats are the same people who speak to children in baby voices and pat pregnant women's bellies without asking permission. Besides, even if your cat could speak, and it happened to ask for a cheeseburger, why would it spell "cheez" with a "Z?" Why? It's one thing to pretend that your cat can talk, but it's another thing to pretend that it has a debilitating speech impediment. (See TIME's Pictures of the Week...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Russian Lolcats | 3/16/2009 | See Source »

...bizarre attempt to stick it to the “elite.” This is the brand of politics that seemed to convince so many that John Kerry’s policy proposals were far less important than the fact that he spoke French, preferred Swiss to Cheez Whiz on his sandwiches, and liked to windsurf. And this is the brand of politics to which Sarah Palin adheres. She is a cultural warrior of the first rank. In her convention speech, Palin pulled no punches in her offensive, painting an almost mythical portrait of small-town America where...

Author: By The Crimson Staff | Title: The Wrong War | 9/9/2008 | See Source »

...movie series, slated for December release, the whole Enterprise gang, led by William Shatner, journeys back in time 300 years to Starfleet's first home base, San Francisco, to save planet earth from an alien life form that had its beginnings in the 20th century. (No, it's not Cheez Whiz.) Perhaps in honor of Star Trek's upcoming 20th anniversary, the new film purports to be the closest so far in form and feeling to the original TV shows. Nimoy directed, as he did the third movie, and he claims, straight-faced as always, ''It has the most down...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Star Trek IV | 7/21/2008 | See Source »

Consider where so many of us see our friends: at the movies, a washtub of popcorn on one armrest, a bladderbuster of Coke on the other. At a ball game, orange "cheez" dripping from our chins, like a jack-o'-lantern bleeding from a bar fight. And, of course, in those very bars, which is why the phrase "Wanna grab a beer?" in any language really means, "Would you like to socialize...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How Friends Make You Fat | 8/2/2007 | See Source »

...ANYONE EVER seemed destined for the nickname "the Big Cheese," it was chemist and food researcher Edwin Traisman. In the '50s, Traisman led the team at Kraft Foods that developed sliced cheese and the distinctly American spreadable snack Cheez Whiz. After leaving his post as Kraft's cheese-division director, he invented the freezing method for McDonald's French fries...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones Jun. 25, 2007 | 6/14/2007 | See Source »

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