The Swiss are a funny lot.
Freddy Mercury and Queen really loved Switzerland and ended up buying a recording studio outside Montreux on Lake Geneva. There is a statue to Freddy on the shore (featured on the cover of their album – Made in Heaven). The song ‘Smoke on the Water’ by Deep Purple is about the smoke from a casino fire when a fan at a Frank Zappa concert accidently burnt down the casino in Montreux leading to smoke over the waters of Lake Geneva. Oh and they store all the money in the world. You would think that it would really be a very exciting and creative place to be. Hmm…
Their trains run like clockwork, their clockwork does too. Not surprisingly therefore this clockwork turns out some of the most amazing watches to be found anywhere – anywhere. They famously fashion their chocolate into geometrically intriguing shapes.
Women are expected to live 6 years longer than men but are not forced to. In 1471 a chicken in Basel, Switzerland, was found guilty of laying a brightly colored egg ‘in defiance of natural law’ so it was burned at the stake as ‘a devil in disguise. In Switzerland, until recently, it was against the law to slam your car door. In Switzerland, it is illegal to mow your front lawn while you’re dressed as Elvis.
Posted: March 2nd, 2010 under Uncategorized.