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reply posted on 16-3-2010 @ 10:54 PM by Sean48
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This is your second "End of the World" thread in a week.

Do you have car insurance coming up or something?


reply posted on 17-3-2010 @ 10:11 AM by Soylent Green Is People
Originally posted by spellbound
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post by aristocrat2



I believe that the Swiss are not evil.

But they need to get rid of that thing - stick to cuckoo clocks and choc, please, Switzerland.

To people who are fans of classics films, this should remind them of the famous "Cuckoo Clock Speech" from the great 1949 film The Third Man. In that movie, the character Harry Lime (Orson Welles) is explaining to his old friend Holly Martins (Joseph Cotton) why he feels that "peace and brotherly love" may be overrated.

Here's that line from the film:
"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."


[edit on 3/17/2010 by Soylent Green Is People]


reply posted on 17-3-2010 @ 10:59 AM by Soylent Green Is People
Originally posted by Merigold
stick to cuckoo clocks


The Swiss do not do Cuckoo clocks, they do take full advantage of the fact that people think they do cuckoo clocks by selling them to gullible tourists.

Cuckoo Clocks


Awww -- don't ruin Orson Welles' "Cuckoo Clock Speech" in the The Third Man for me (see my post above). That's one of my all-time favorite films.

Besides, even the article you linked points out that the Swiss originated the "Chalet-Style" of cuckoo clock, which is by far the most popular mental image people have for cuckoo clocks.

So I suppose that movie line is still valid.
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