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Thursday, August 28, 2008 at 11:00PM 
Hi Folks! Just back from a couple of days business in sunny Switzerland - hence lack of posting. Don't know if you have been there but it is incredibly picturesque and the Swiss are a very civilised people. Will sort the world out tomorrow, hope you are all well.
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Absolutely David.
Fabulous place.
Zermatt, Saas Fee, Verbier, top skiing all round.
I'd live there if the buggers would have me.
Flipping hell David, you get around alright. Lucky man.
Missed you David.
>>Absolutely David.<<
Pete, you admire the civilisation of Rome AND Switzerland..?
Remember the Third Man!
What a coincidence Noel. I was thinking of just that famous line when I saw the Switzerland post.
Noel Cunningham -
Precisely. I offer them warfare, terror, murder and bloodshed, yet they prefer democracy and cuckoo clocks. Strange people.
We are all ONE, Colm. Welcome back, by the way. We missed you.
And that superbly apt political analogy of the Russian Matryoshka doll (can't remember where you posted it. Was it really yours BTW, or something you picked up in Rome?) was just the perfect comeback!
Thanks Noel
That was on the truth about russia in georgia thread, and yes I did make it up all by myself.
The only thing I picked up in Rome was myself off the floor when I paid Eu32.00 (£26.00) for 2 beers and a Bacardi and coke..
Sounds like bar rape, Colm.
Colm, that was seriously a stroke of genius. If it were said by someone prominent, it would become and stay part of the political argot probably for a generation.
>>The only thing I picked up in Rome was myself off the floor<<
Be glad you didn't pick up something around
Maresciallo Giardino!
Daphne
Well they did throw in a complmentary little bowl of nuts to help ease the sting..
Noel
It wasn't that brilliant, you're making me blush !
Colm is brilliant. Now tell us about the women.......
Pete,
"I'd live there if the buggers would have me"
What the? Shouldn't you be hung for such a traitorous remark? What happened to roaming the land of your ancestors, the never ending story, all that? Talk about fickle. Did Magna Carta die in vain?
As for Zermatt, suddenly Cooper's Hill isn't good enough for you. Well that cheese isn't going to roll itself.
>>As for Zermatt, suddenly Cooper's Hill isn't good enough for you. Well that cheese isn't going to roll itself.<<
ROFL!
Perhaps Pete has decided he prefers Swiss Roll
David: Welcome back. I hope you had fun visiting your secret Swiss bank accounts.
Screw the bank accounts, what's Swiss Roll?
Daphne: It is a baked sort of cake filled with jelly. Or something to do in the hay with a Swiss maiden.
Daphne
Mahons virtually has it right. A swiss roll is a cheap rectangular sponge confection rolled up with jam and sometimes cream. It is sold in a tubular shape. You can buy a really cheap one for about 15p in some supermarkets here in the UK.
We have them here in the States Colm, but we call them people from Ohio.
Mahons, Colm - I don't think Pete would like cheap jelly rolled cake or chubby Ohioans.
I'm betting the man would love some of my pan de dulce.
DAVID,
Why didn't you tell the costoms and immigration officers you were the favoutite son of Muammar Gadaffi?
That would have got you a long stay in Switzerland.
By the way my family and I have vacationed several times in Siwtzerland and loved it. Our favourite city is Zurich. There's a swim club down near where the river empties into lake Zurich where all the women sunbath topless.
We drove from there over the Swiss alps into Northern Italy and then back over the alps into Austria. Most beautiful country. It was August and the temperature was in the 80's (f) but snow covered the mountain tops. It's a fantastic place and much ignored by American vacationeers. Swiss beer ain't bad either, but it isn't cheap.
Factoid for the day - Swiss Roll is known as "roule anglais" in switzerland.
(actually i may have spelled the first word wrong but you get my meaning)
Another factoid: women didn't get the right to vote in Switzerland until 1971 (federal elections), and they still couldn't vote in some cantons until the 1990's.
There were also all kinds of archaic laws in force there about women's rights to own property etc. until quite recently.
No wonder some who complain about Islamic practices so much like it there!