Heist 2001 - Banking With Hitler TV - Ronald Top TV - Ripley's Believe It Or Not! 2006 - The Templar Code TV - Andre Gide - Sydney Smith - Ernest Hemingway - P J O'Rourke - Simon Hoggart - Mark Twain - Jay Leno - Jerry Seinfeld - Heist 2001 -
21,375. I never liked the Swiss. They make them little clocks. These two cocksuckers come out of them. These little hammers. Hit each other on the head. What kind of sick mentality is that? (GBH Films & Switzerland & Clock) Heist 2001 starring Gene Hackman & Danny De Vito & Delroy Lindo & Rebecca Pidgeon & Ricky Jay & Sam Rockwell et al, director David Mamet, Pinky
26,112. Swiss banks stand accused of collaborating with the Nazis. But it wasn’t just Swiss bankers who dealt with Hitler’s Reich. New evidence shows that many who financed him came from uncomfortably closer to home. (World War II & Nazi & Bank & Swiss) Banking with Hitler
47,889. British pioneer George Stephenson came to Switzerland in the late 1840s to advise on railway construction. The trouble was a conventional train could never climb such a steep slope because the smooth train wheels don’t have enough grip against the smooth rails ... The funicular railway is amazingly simple. Two cars on a cable, some water and a pair of buckets! (Railway & Engineering & Switzerland & Industrial Revolution) Ronald Top, More Industrial Revelations: Europe - Steaming up the Alps
47,890. It was all about clogs and teeth. (Railway & Engineering & Switzerland & Industrial Revolution) ibid.
47,891. Welcome aboard the steepest rack railroad in the world ... Over a hundred and fifteen years later tourists are still happy to trust their lives to a nineteenth century technology of cogs and racks. (Railway & Engineering & Switzerland & Industrial Revolution) ibid.
90,402. It is illegal to flush the toilet after 10 p.m. if you live in an apartment. (Switzerland & Toilet) Ripley’s Believe It Or Not! 2006
90,403. Switzerland may have proved the perfect place for the Templar’s military skills and their business acumen. The Templar Code
90,404. What cleanliness everywhere! You dare not throw your cigarette into the lake. No graffiti in the urinals. Switzerland is proud of this: but I believe this is just what she lacks: manure. Andre Gide, diary entry 10th August 1917
90,405. I look upon Switzerland as an inferior sort of Scotland. Sydney Smith, letter to Lord Holland 1815
90,406. Switzerland is a small, steep country, much more up and down than sideways, and is all stuck over with large brown hotels built on the cuckoo clock style of architecture. Ernest Hemingway
90,407. If we heard that somebody starved to death in Sweden or Switzerland, we would be shocked. (Switzerland & Sweden & Starvation) P J O’Rourke
90,408. Switzerland still has a huge share of the watch market, all advertised at the airport on illuminated hoardings. Gosh, they are ugly. (Switzerland & Advertising) Simon Hoggart
90,409. Switzerland is simply a large, lumpy, solid rock with a thin skin of grass stretched over it. Mark Twain
90,412. Switzerland would me a mighty big place if it were ironed flat. Mark Twain
90,410. Senator John Kerry released his plan today to eliminate the deficit. He said all we have to do is find a really rich country like Switzerland and marry it. Jay Leno
90,411. The Swiss have an interesting army. Five hundred years without a war. Pretty impressive. Also pretty lucky for them. Ever see that little Swiss Army knife they have to fight with? Not much of a weapon there. Corkscrews. Bottle openers. ‘Come on, buddy, let’s go. You get past me, the guy in back of me, he’s got a spoon. Back off. I’ve got the toe clippers right here. Jerry Seinfeld
120,068. Never liked the Swiss. They make them little clocks. These two cocksuckers come out of them. These little hammers. Hit each other on the head. What kind of sick mentality is that? (GBH Films & Switzerland) Heist 2001 starring Gene Hackman & Danny DeVito & Delroy Lindo & Rebecca Pidgeon & Sam Rockwell & Ricky Jay & Patti LuPone & Alan Bilzerian & Richard Friedman & Robert Lussier et al, director David Mamet, Pinky