The word “briefly” is not composed of the words “brie” (a soft French cheese) and “fly (an insect), but there are jokes.
“I wonder what would happen if you put an insect in some soft French cheese? Just briefly” was posted on Twitter by cluedont on June 29, 2012. “I wonder what would happen if you put a small insect in some soft French cheese, briefly?” was posted on Twitter by cluedont on February 4, 2013. “An insect landed on my soft French cheese, briefly” was posted on Reddit—Oneliners on June 21, 2021.
Wikipedia: Brie
Brie (/briː/; French: [bʁi]) is a soft cow’s-milk cheese named after Brie, the French region from which it originated (roughly corresponding to the modern département of Seine-et-Marne). It is pale in color with a slight grayish tinge under a rind of white mould. The rind is typically eaten, with its flavor depending largely upon the ingredients used and its manufacturing environment
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cluedont
@cluedont
I wonder what would happen if you put an insect in some soft French cheese? Just briefly.
9:52 AM · Jun 29, 2012·TweetDeck
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Daniel Connor
@connormcfc
@MCFC What do you think would happen if you put an insect in some soft French cheese? Just briefly? #AskAleks
5:15 AM · Jul 12, 2012·Twitter for Android
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cluedont
@cluedont
I’m thinking about what would happen if you put a small insect in some soft French cheese. Briefly.
10:32 AM · Oct 16, 2012·TweetDeck
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cluedont
@cluedont
I wonder what would happen if you put a small insect in some soft French cheese, briefly?
3:45 PM · Feb 4, 2013·Twitter for Android
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Cecilia Razak
@crazak
Replying to @natecantor
“That insect is drawn to the pound of flesh like it’s soft french cheese,” Portia said briefly #ShakespeareSwifties
@natecantor @brianstitt
3:41 PM · Oct 3, 2013·Twitter Web Client
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cluedont
@cluedont
A small, winged insect just landed on my soft French cheese! Luckily it was only briefly.
9:49 AM · May 3, 2016·TweetDeck
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snaillord
@snaillord
briefly - insect that likes soft white French cheese
5:59 PM · Feb 22, 2017·Twitter Web Client
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Barx©
@leBarx
Some kind of winged insect just landed in my soft French cheese
Thankfully it was only briefly #sundaysmiles
3:49 AM · May 3, 2020·Twitter for Android
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cluedont
@cluedont
A small insect landed on my soft French cheese. Just briefly.
12:30 PM · Nov 8, 2020·Twitter for iPhone
Reddit—Oneliners
Posted by u/WhoElseButAlf June 21, 2021
An insect landed on my soft French cheese, briefly.
Above, a 1934 plaque from the Big Apple Night Club at West 135th Street and Seventh Avenue in Harlem. Discarded as trash in 2006. Now a Popeyes fast food restaurant on Google Maps.
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Above, Big Apple Corner at 54th Street and Broadway in Manhattan. Google Maps.
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