Here’s another that might earn a chuckle:
Goering once asked a Swiss diplomat what would happen if Germany attacked the million strong Swiss army with a force of three million soldiers.
The diplomat answered “Everyone would have to shoot three times.”
Nor have bears been Catholic since John Knox converted them to Presbyterianism in 1557.
Try getting them to yodel instead.
Stepping on a lego should work.
Oh, why would you invoke that curse? Go ahead and summon a Lake Troll in the middle of Helsinki why don’t you?
There’s a worse thing than a lego to step on. Try a 74HC245, in a DIP packaging, pins-up.
After stepping on, the pins bend, securing the chip to the foot surface.
Don’t ask how I know.
Good idea with the trolley, BTW. Todo…
A glacier is basically an ice river, so quite right.
This is a Swiss joke, translated for your amusement(?)
A businessman and his son live in Zurich. The son meets a girl from Zug and they get married. After a bit his wife suggests they move to Zug and he commutes to the factory, which they do.
After eighteen months his father abruptly tells him that he’s sacked from the family firm. The son is astounded and asks the father why.
“Everybody knows you can’t trust those people from Zug.”
And while I’m at it, a true story.
A Swiss couple got divorced, but as their house could be divided into up and down halves, the ex-wife took the upper floor, which had an external staircase access, and the ex-husband took the lower floor.
After a while the ex-wife acquired a boyfriend. One weekend while they were in bed they heard a scrabbling sound from the roof (which had a sloping window) but thought nothing of it because large birds sometimes roosted there. However, the noise continued sporadically, so the next morning the ex-wife decided to ask the ex-husband if he had noticed anything. He didn’t answer the door.
The ex-wife and her friend then decided to take a look around the back of the house to see if there were any signs of what had caused the noise. They found a wooden ladder on the ground. At this point they discovered that the ex-husband had climbed onto the roof in order to watch them in bed, the ladder had fallen down, and he had been there all night waiting for them to leave before trying to escape.
The point of this story? A former colleague (Italian) was told this story by the ex-wife, and recounted it to his workmates at lunchtime. At which they all agreed that this was a very Swiss thing to happen.
Wow!
This was very close (within a few hundred meters?) of a fatal slide involving skiers this weekend. It actually looks like there were several slides in the area due to the recent conditions.
From 4Frnt skis: (who lost a sales rep)
There was a massive avalanche in Verbier, Switzerland yesterday. In the area of Tzoumaz/Riddes to be exact, four people rode into the backcountry and triggered the 250x200 meters avalanche.
The area reported to have had heavy winds and a really bad snow base in the last 2 weeks. It started dumping about 8 days ago and conditions for backcountry skiing were really bad in terms of avalanche danger. Fresh snow on blank ice. They skied into an area with some trees in it and most likely thought it wasn’t that critical. Another party was on the other side of the valley and saw them dropping in. Rescue teams sent 3 helicopters and some skiers that saw what happened helped to find them.
That’s no avalanche. That’s a giant snow worm.
As Swiss bears were wiped out at around 1900 and the current ursine immigrants are mostly Italian tourists - are you sure about the catholic/protestantic split?
Can you ride it?
You sure can.
But probably only once.
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