Not for nothin' but... Swiss inventions
Cheese
The card game/playing cards 1377
Fondue
Solar collector (Horace Bénédict de sow's sura, in 1767)
Electric telegraph (George-Louis Lesage, in 1774)
Internal-combustion engine (François Isaac de Rivaz, in 1807)
The first chocolate factory (Philippe Suchard, in 1826)
The multinational enterprise (Georg Fischer, in 1833)
The first cut pattern for clothes (Zurich, in 1844)
Cough tablets (Emanuel Wybert for the golden drugstore Basel, GABA, in 1846)
Chocolate bar (François-Louis Cailler, in 1849)
The bobsleigh*
Army pocket knife; later "Victorinox" (Karl Elsener, in 1891: Patent in 1897)
Toblerone (Theodor Tobler, in 1908)
Thin aluminum foil (company Alusuisse, in 1912)
LSD (Albert Hofmann, in 1938)
Pressure cooker "Duromatic" (Heinrich Kuhn, in 1949)
Potato chips
Velcro*
The font Helvetica
Electronic wristwatch
The artificial hip
Electric toothbrush
The quartz wristwatch: "Beta 21" (Centre Electronique Horologer, in 1967)
LCD display
Tamiflu
And... wait for it...
WWW (Tim Berners-Lee and Robert Cailliau, at CERN in Geneva, in 1991)

Originally Posted by USBill

Not for nothin' but... Swiss inventions
Cheese
The card game/playing cards 1377
Fondue
Solar collector (Horace Bénédict de sow's sura, in 1767)
Electric telegraph (George-Louis Lesage, in 1774)
Internal-combustion engine (François Isaac de Rivaz, in 1807)
The first chocolate factory (Philippe Suchard, in 1826)
The multinational enterprise (Georg Fischer, in 1833)
The first cut pattern for clothes (Zurich, in 1844)
Cough tablets (Emanuel Wybert for the golden drugstore Basel, GABA, in 1846)
Chocolate bar (François-Louis Cailler, in 1849)
The bobsleigh*
Army pocket knife; later "Victorinox" (Karl Elsener, in 1891: Patent in 1897)
Toblerone (Theodor Tobler, in 1908)
Thin aluminum foil (company Alusuisse, in 1912)
LSD (Albert Hofmann, in 1938)
Pressure cooker "Duromatic" (Heinrich Kuhn, in 1949)
Potato chips
Velcro*
The font Helvetica
Electronic wristwatch
The artificial hip
Electric toothbrush
The quartz wristwatch: "Beta 21" (Centre Electronique Horologer, in 1967)
LCD display
Tamiflu
And... wait for it...
WWW (Tim Berners-Lee and Robert Cailliau, at CERN in Geneva, in 1991)

errr...okay I am TOTALLY lost here.

Little help?

Originally Posted by Digikid

errr...okay I am TOTALLY lost here.

Little help?

I seriously thought Canada had better schools.

USBill is responding to my Orson Welles quote from the movie "The Third Man" regarding Switzerland.

Originally Posted by epb

Originally Posted by Digikid

errr...okay I am TOTALLY lost here.

Little help?

I seriously thought Canada had better schools.

USBill is responding to my Orson Welles quote from the movie "The Third Man" regarding Switzerland.

Hey now. Watch it!

I'm not saying nuffin'.

But bobsleigh and fondue? However did the world manage without em'????

The American education system is a major letdown as well. No Child Left Behind my ass!

Originally Posted by Tinman

I'm not saying nuffin'.

But bobsleigh and fondue? However did the world manage without em'????

And don't forget the best darn hot chocolate in the world!

And what about that little girl who ruined the last 65 seconds of the game between the New York Jets and the Oakland Raiders, played on November 17, 1968?

I've noticed that the people giving the advice assume that the recipient knows the basics. A noob is a NOOB. Thats what it means! Give them a break! Be kind!

Originally Posted by 1991-C4

And what about that little girl who ruined the last 65 second of the game between the New York Jets and the Oakland Raiders, played on November 17, 1968?

Well ~ how did she ruin it Scott? I was just a baby then.