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To: JerseyanExile
Switzerland: The Mecca of Preppers.

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"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.

See ya, Holly."


8 posted on 10/15/2012 2:29:07 AM PDT by Lonesome in Massachussets ( Message to President Obama: Mene, mene, tekel, upharsin)
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To: Lonesome in Massachussets

Legend has it that Welles wrote that little speech himself.


20 posted on 10/15/2012 11:02:21 AM PDT by Erasmus (Zwischen des Teufels und des tiefen, blauen Meers)
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