All Hail the Swiss!

New American (Vol 17, No. 27) Insider Report ^ | 31 Dec 01 | self as parrot

[RichInOC]

Or my compact car, either. Moose love compact cars. Well, they'll try to anyway, but for some reason the cars don't respond to foreplay.

[Caipirabob]

The Swiss have always been suspect in my eyes over their inhuman treatment and merciless slaughter by machine gun fire of innocent cheese.

[raygun]

Hah, got ya! There are no moose in Switzerland (I'm not sure about your sister though); she might have something about compact cars (or was it she likes compacting cars). Oh, I don't know, I'm sure that its nothing that a Macchi C.202 couldn't deal with...

Wouldn't want to run up against into one of those in a the likes of a P-40 Warhawk or Hawker Hurricane (I'd even be worried with the likes of a late-model P-51 or Spitfire); albeit the moose wouldn't be very happy either.

[be131]

In Italy for 30 years under the Borgias they had warfare, terror, murder, and bloodshed, but they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci, and the Renaissance. In Switzerland they had brotherly love - they had 500 years of democracy and peace, and what did that produce? The cuckoo clock.

[raygun]

You, sir, are completely wrong.

First of all, they've made lots of cheese and goats (not in that order). They also made lots of money after selling out to Nestle their formula for chocolate milk. Since they have all of that money, they made hundreds of (Nazi, Allied and anybody who dared step into their airspace) warplanes crash. They needed banks to put the money in so they made those. Since they didn't want anybody to know about the money in these banks, they made special bank accounts. Since they didn't want they account to lose value over time, they made gold-based currency on which the accounts were valued. Since they needed extra cash, they made everybody in the world use their banking system whenever it was most suitable for individuals to not shout from the highest Swiss mountain tops how much non-gold money (otherwise known as stuff) they had to be legally plundered from anybody who had bigger and faster shooting guns or lawyers.

So as you can see, they made a lot of stuff. Coockoo clocks is only a cover that they made (for coockoo's like you) to keep this all secret.

[be131]

LOL

[raygun]

You selectively have forgotten to mention that in the 30 years of tyranny under the Borgias, even so the things you mention about the Italians making, you omitted any mention about the likes of Machiavelli. History of modern civilization, most Democrats/Republicans and the hoi polloi are eternally in the depths of gratitude to the Italians for that.

[Cachelot]

I've read that after you finish your service in the Swiss Army, you take your Army-issued weapon home with you.

Yes, you do. The assault rifle, that is. Heavier weapons are not generally stored in private homes, although sometimes the army actually has a "garage sale" - and private citizens can buy. You want a howitzer and can pay for it, it's yours :).

[be131]

In case you didn't realize, my post was a quote from the movie: "The Third Man".

[RichInOC]

But if they're stealth moose, how would you know whether there were any or not, unless they bit your sister...or put the moves on your car?

[LIBERTARIAN JOE]

Opel Blitz trucks with Ford engines. ME-109 fighters with Rolls-Royce engines. Rail based Oil tanks with the Shell Oil logo on the side

Even worse, taliban with stinger missles, chinese nuclear warheads atop missles with USA guideance systems (Thanks bill xlinton!), islamic KLA thugs killing Serbs with US special forces covering their backs, etc.