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Cocacolajojo wrote:Just because we're on the subject and I for some reason love this little fact, it was Orson Welles who spread the misconception that the Swiss invented the cuckoo clock in his film the Third Man, with the following quote:

"You know what the fellow said—in Italy for thirty 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 five hundred years of democracy and peace—and what did that produce? The cuckoo clock."

A great quote though

ruralblue wrote:

zuricity wrote:

Dameerto wrote:

zuricity wrote:

Dameerto wrote:Take that you cheese and toblerone eating cuckoo clock watching bunch of divers.

It' s the Germans that make Cuckoo clocks, not the Swiss

So 'watching' means the same thing as 'making' does it? Thanks for the English lesson.

Where on earth do you get the idea that the Swiss 'watch Cuckoo clocks' ? They have very little interest in them. Expensive watches, yes.

Jesus the pair of you are a bit thick. The Swiss just love Swiss Rolls and purple chocolate producing cows.