Uli--Please explain

May-29th-2003, 02:49 PM

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bluenoter · May-29th-2003, 03:29 PM

Come on, Chris. Everybody knows that Switzerland exports watches, chocolate bars, cuckoo clocks, knives, and white people.

hornplayer · May-29th-2003, 03:38 PM

and what are the rest of the "white people?" chopped liver???

oye vay! that's a real lulu! ... and so, I fear. is Crouch!

Sergio Zamora · May-29th-2003, 03:40 PM

I bet people in Norway or Sweden have less pigmentation than the Swiss.

Tanager · May-29th-2003, 03:42 PM

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Originally posted by bluenoter
Come on, Chris. Everybody knows that Switzerland exports watches, chocolate bars, cuckoo clocks, knives, and white people.

Actually, cuckoo clocks are more German, specifically from the Black Forest. I love nitpicking.

Sergio Zamora · May-29th-2003, 04:00 PM

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Originally posted by Tanager
Actually, cuckoo clocks are more German, specifically from the Black Forest. I love nitpicking.

And chocolate (which derives from the Nahuatl word xocolatl) is from Mexico.

Brian Olewnick · May-29th-2003, 04:03 PM

Oh sure, Sergio, everything good was originally Mexican. Right.

bluenoter · May-29th-2003, 04:04 PM

Tanager--It's clear to me that you're right, but here's a Swiss company that's gotten in on the action:

Lotscher - "The Only Genuine Swiss Cuckoo Clocks in the World"

Sergio--I said that Switzerland exported chocolate (bars), not frickin' invented chocolate.

Sergio Zamora · May-29th-2003, 04:08 PM

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Originally posted by Brian Olewnick
Oh sure, Sergio, everything good was originally Mexican. Right.

Ya can't make pizza without tomatoes (Nahuatl=xitomatl), now can you?

Except for white pizza.

I believe real white pizza is from Swizterland, though.

shrugs · May-29th-2003, 04:13 PM

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Originally posted by Sergio Zamora
And chocolate (which derives from the Nahuatl word xocolatl) is from Mexico.

mole sauce!

Brian Olewnick · May-29th-2003, 04:15 PM

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Originally posted by Sergio Zamora
Ya can't make pizza without tomatoes (Nahuatl=xitomatl), now can you?

Oh give me a break. Tomatoes yet.

I'll give you credit for sugar skulls, but that's it!

Pete C · May-29th-2003, 04:19 PM

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Originally posted by bluenoter
Come on, Chris. Everybody knows that Switzerland exports watches, chocolate bars, cuckoo clocks, knives, and white people.

Didn't Harry Lime say that in "The Third Man"?

Sergio Zamora · May-29th-2003, 04:19 PM

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Originally posted by Brian Olewnick
I'll give you credit for sugar skulls, but that's it!

A humble gift from my people to the World.

May-29th-2003, 04:31 PM

I always wondered where the real white people came from. I should have known that it would be Switzerland. They even have special moist toilet paper there (advertised on public transportation vehicles) to keep their asses lily white at all times.

bluenoter · May-29th-2003, 04:40 PM

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Didn't Harry Lime say that in "The Third Man"?

Pete--I've never seen "The Third Man," but I dutifully looked it up, and here's what I found:

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"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.''

- Harry Lime (Orson Welles) in "The Third Man"

Uli · May-29th-2003, 05:04 PM

Awright, gonna have to read the article, but as usual Stanley is somewhat right. Jung is from Switzerland. As to the people, I have seen whiter from England and even some of those might turn awfully red on a sunny beach.

walto · May-29th-2003, 05:05 PM

"I always wondered where the real white people came from."

And here I thought they were from Maine originally.

Pete C · May-29th-2003, 05:21 PM

I always thought white people came from Africa, like everyone else.

clinthopson · May-29th-2003, 05:23 PM

Ah, white people, white bread, miracle whip. . .

Reminds me of a guy who used to be allowed in here.

Sergio Zamora · May-29th-2003, 05:26 PM

For some reason, my grandmother seemed to be proud that we had French blood. My dad, being the smartass that he is, would tell her that our French blood came from all those French missionaries that we ate.

Pete C · May-29th-2003, 05:29 PM

Didn't Marco Polo get spaghetti from some Chinese guy in Mexico?

Sergio Zamora · May-29th-2003, 05:32 PM

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Originally posted by Pete C
Didn't Marco Polo get spaghetti from some Chinese guy in Mexico?

I believe China was part of the Aztec Empire at the time.

Pete C · May-29th-2003, 05:41 PM

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Originally posted by Sergio Zamora
Ya can't make pizza without tomatoes (Nahuatl=xitomatl), now can you?

When the moon hits your eye
Like a big Mexican guy
That's Zamora!

bluenoter · May-29th-2003, 05:57 PM

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When the moon hits your eye
Like a big Mexican guy
That's Zamora!

Bravo!

stonemonkts · May-29th-2003, 06:29 PM

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Originally posted by bluenoter

Pete--I've never seen "The Third Man," but I dutifully looked it up, and here's what I found:

Pardon me for interrupting, but....GET THEE TO A VIDEO STORE AND RENT IT!

It happens to be one of my 5 or so favorite films ever, so that explains my excitement.

Carry on

Lois Gilbert · May-29th-2003, 06:37 PM

Chris perhaps you can post the rest of the interview or more than just one line. Sometimes as you well know, context is everything....

Sand · May-29th-2003, 06:46 PM

Only last week my weekly paper said that Switzerland is becoming a part of the world. It's less nevrotic and almost not depressive any more.

And one of the members on this board said he was moving there. Something's happening.

The Swedes are rather Greek theese days and Oslo is multi-etnic.

stonemonkts · May-29th-2003, 06:51 PM

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Originally posted by David Gitin
Stonemonkts, I have liked the movie since childhood, and when I finally visited Vienna, I insisted on riding the ferris wheel at the Prater...

That sounds grand! I too have loved the film since childhood, my father was a very avid movie buff (and a major autograph hound as a child growing up in NY, but that's another story) so I was fortunate to have a steady diet of topnotch films to see.

The Third Man is one of those movies where you could blow up EVERY single frame and hang them as works of B&W photographic art.
I really dig the zither too. Love Graham Greene...the movie has it all for me. Wonderful cast. etc and so on. That last long tracking shot of Vali walking away, the leaves falling, the pollarded trees lining the cemetary lane....superb.

Al in NYC · May-29th-2003, 07:17 PM

You all don't get it... Crouch just let slip some important secret information. It seems that Switzerland, and not the Greek islands, was the real home of Yakub!

bluenoter · May-29th-2003, 11:23 PM

Stonemonk--Thanks. I have no equipment on which to play "The Third Man," but it sounds wonderful. Maybe I can watch it at someone else's place sometime, and I'll keep my eye out for it in the repertory theaters.