Who Cut The Cheese?: An A-Mazing Parody About Change and How We Can Get Our Hands On Yours

By Stilton Jarlsberg

"Who Cut the Cheese?" is the original hilarious parody of the motivational bestseller "Who Moved My Cheese?(tm)" It's the funniest take on "the rat race" ever...and is especially relevant in today's difficult economy.

• Language: English
• Publisher: BookBaby
• Release date: May 5, 2011
• ISBN: 9781617925764

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OUR BRAINS COME APART

The Simple-Minded and The Complicated

The four characters found in this story – the rats: Snitch and Scamper, and the teeny people: Hi and Ho – represent the simple-minded and complicated parts of our brains, regardless of our age, gender, race, or unmedicated mental condition.

Sometimes we behave like

Snitch

Who gets information about change by fair means or foul, or

Scamper

Who scampers at full speed into action and the occasional wall, or

Hi

Whose hysteria grows increasingly shrill as he confronts change, or

Ho

Who learns that the best way to find Cheese is to act like a rat.

No matter which part of our brains we use, there are two things we all have in common: our need to travel successfully through the maze of life...and the fact that 90% of our brains are water.

Behind The Story of The Story

Foreword by Kenneth Bleucheese, Ph.D.

I'm tickled pink to be taking you behind the story of the story of Who Cut The Cheese? because it means that another copy of this book has been sold, and my pile of Cheese has just gotten bigger. Of course, your pile of Cheese has just gotten smaller by exactly the same amount, meaning you need this book.

Or perhaps you received this book as a gift from a friend who is trying to give you a hint only slightly more subtle than taping a loser sign on your back. If this is the case, you desperately need this book. And probably less cowardly friends.

In either event, I've wanted to share this fabulous Cheese story ever since it first dawned on me that a tiny book with oversized print, wide margins, and lots of pictures would only take about a day to write.

Who Cut The Cheese? is a parable (Latin for terrible parody) in which four characters must find a way through a maze in their hunt for Cheese.

But please keep in mind that this Cheese is actually symbolic of the things that we all want out of life: success and self-confidence, a nice house, a loving marital relationship, perfect children, a loyal dog, indoor plumbing, good Chinese food, several million tax-free dollars, and passionate red-hot sex with multiple partners.

The metaphorical Cheese could be your job, your relationship, your Horrible Secret— anything that makes you happy, no matter how unrealistic or sick. Pursuing this Cheese gives our lives meaning.

But finding your Cheese and then having it unexpectedly cut off can be absolutely devastating. Especially if it involved genitalia.

By the way, if you thought this book would actually help you find real cheese, well...it's over in your supermarket's dairy section. You can close up this book now and go back to watching the Cartoon Network. Glad to have helped.

The Maze in this story is