"work of Stan" source of phrase?

[rogerzilla]

So where did "cheese" come from, as a pejorative term for weak metal?  It was always "monkey metal" when I was younger, although monkey metal specifically refers to a particularly nasty "white metal" alloy comprised of anything that comes to hand.

[Mr Larrington]

I stole "X is made of cheese" from a motorcycle magazine during a particularly dull night shift in 1996.

[hellymedic]

And then planted it in uk.rec.cycling and uk.rec.sheds, where quite a few yacfers cut their usenet teeth.

[Vernon]

I stole "X is made of cheese" from a motorcycle magazine during a particularly dull night shift in 1996.

That rings a bell. I'm sure I can remember the "made of cheese" meme from either BSH or AWOL in the early nineties. I now feel old.

[rogerzilla]

BSH 

At my school it was considered a sort of very soft-porn mag with some motorbikes thrown in, and therefore popular.

[Mr Larrington]

IIRC I saw it in "Ride" as the cow-orker whose mags I borrowed was a Serious Biker.  I think he rode a Fireblade.