Technical point of order: The Swiss did not produce the cuckoo clock. That was the krauts. :geek:Quote:
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. ”
Second point: The Swiss hate people suggesting they invented the cuckoo clock.
Third point: I don't like the Swiss, so I refer to the cuckoo clock whenever I meet one.