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    vonb
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    Well, at least for all of our members living / our currently staying here in Switzerland. For those who don't know, a legend says this country was founded August the 1st, 1291, pretty long time ago. We are celebrating this date with a day off, brunches, BBQs and expensive fireworks in the night (we have to pay taxes for something...) Posted this today because tomorrow like the majority of fellow Swiss guys won't be online, or just a very short period of time. ;) modified for clarification

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      Well, at least for all of our members living / our currently staying here in Switzerland. For those who don't know, a legend says this country was founded August the 1st, 1291, pretty long time ago. We are celebrating this date with a day off, brunches, BBQs and expensive fireworks in the night (we have to pay taxes for something...) Posted this today because tomorrow like the majority of fellow Swiss guys won't be online, or just a very short period of time. ;) modified for clarification

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      vonb wrote:

      because tomorrow like the majority of fellow Swiss guys won't be online, or just very short.

      Do they get taller again on Aug 2nd?

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        vonb wrote:

        because tomorrow like the majority of fellow Swiss guys won't be online, or just very short.

        Do they get taller again on Aug 2nd?

        The universe is composed of electrons, neutrons, protons and......morons. (ThePhantomUpvoter)

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        OriginalGriff wrote:

        taller

        Taller I don't know. I will be in the office August the 2nd.. ;) [Edit]I meant a short period of time...[/Edit]

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          Well, at least for all of our members living / our currently staying here in Switzerland. For those who don't know, a legend says this country was founded August the 1st, 1291, pretty long time ago. We are celebrating this date with a day off, brunches, BBQs and expensive fireworks in the night (we have to pay taxes for something...) Posted this today because tomorrow like the majority of fellow Swiss guys won't be online, or just a very short period of time. ;) modified for clarification

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          Dalek Dave
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          It must help being short in Switzerland, you can become a Gnome.

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            It must help being short in Switzerland, you can become a Gnome.

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            But then he'd have to move to Zürich...

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              It must help being short in Switzerland, you can become a Gnome.

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              The country is small. Being short helps to feel it bigger.. :laugh: P.S. Average height of people is standard european (1.70 meter), but here in the south it's shorter (Italian influance may be)

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                But then he'd have to move to Zürich...

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                I love Lugano. Never move frome here, people from Zürich make vacations here..

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                  The country is small. Being short helps to feel it bigger.. :laugh: P.S. Average height of people is standard european (1.70 meter), but here in the south it's shorter (Italian influance may be)

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                  The French gave us the French Kiss[^] I Glasgow you could get a Glasgow Kiss[^] An Eskimo would give you an Eskimo Kiss[^] Any of these are preferable to a Swiss Kiss (No link as it is entirely awful unless performed by two girls)

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                    Well, at least for all of our members living / our currently staying here in Switzerland. For those who don't know, a legend says this country was founded August the 1st, 1291, pretty long time ago. We are celebrating this date with a day off, brunches, BBQs and expensive fireworks in the night (we have to pay taxes for something...) Posted this today because tomorrow like the majority of fellow Swiss guys won't be online, or just a very short period of time. ;) modified for clarification

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                    jim lahey
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                    It's also Yorkshire Day - the done thing for a Yorkshireman living in Switzerland is to bellow On Ilkla Moor bar't'at at the top of your voice from the balcony.

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                      It's also Yorkshire Day - the done thing for a Yorkshireman living in Switzerland is to bellow On Ilkla Moor bar't'at at the top of your voice from the balcony.

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                      So Puddings all round then, eh Mr Herriot?

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                        The French gave us the French Kiss[^] I Glasgow you could get a Glasgow Kiss[^] An Eskimo would give you an Eskimo Kiss[^] Any of these are preferable to a Swiss Kiss (No link as it is entirely awful unless performed by two girls)

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                        Jorgen Andersson
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                        In Sweden the Glasgow kiss is known as Danish head. :rolleyes:

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                          vonb wrote:

                          because tomorrow like the majority of fellow Swiss guys won't be online, or just very short.

                          Do they get taller again on Aug 2nd?

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                          Jorgen Andersson
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                          I guess William Tell did his shot on the Aug first then.

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                            It's also Yorkshire Day - the done thing for a Yorkshireman living in Switzerland is to bellow On Ilkla Moor bar't'at at the top of your voice from the balcony.

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                            I like our national hymn. Cannot sing it so, never was able to sing anything. :(

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                              I guess William Tell did his shot on the Aug first then.

                              Be excellent to each other. And... PARTY ON, DUDES! Abraham Lincoln

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                              That's what the legend says. There is always something true in a legend..

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                                The French gave us the French Kiss[^] I Glasgow you could get a Glasgow Kiss[^] An Eskimo would give you an Eskimo Kiss[^] Any of these are preferable to a Swiss Kiss (No link as it is entirely awful unless performed by two girls)

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                                vonb
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                                I my place we have the Swiss Italian kiss. It's mostly the Italian one, but not so corrupted..

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                                • J jim lahey

                                  It's also Yorkshire Day - the done thing for a Yorkshireman living in Switzerland is to bellow On Ilkla Moor bar't'at at the top of your voice from the balcony.

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                                  Bergholt Stuttley Johnson
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                                  nowt wrong with Yorkshire it’s just the rest of the country is Jealous and Last time I was on Ilkley Moor bar tat id just come off the bike so will appreciate not being reminded

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                                    The French gave us the French Kiss[^] I Glasgow you could get a Glasgow Kiss[^] An Eskimo would give you an Eskimo Kiss[^] Any of these are preferable to a Swiss Kiss (No link as it is entirely awful unless performed by two girls)

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                                    Rob Grainger
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                                    and the Dalek nation gave us the broken link!

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                                    • J jim lahey

                                      It's also Yorkshire Day - the done thing for a Yorkshireman living in Switzerland is to bellow On Ilkla Moor bar't'at at the top of your voice from the balcony.

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                                      BobJanova
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                                      That doesn't have any historical meaning, though, does it? I think they (Yorkshire Forward or some group like that) just picked a day because they thought we ought to have a celebration of Yorkshire.

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                                        That doesn't have any historical meaning, though, does it? I think they (Yorkshire Forward or some group like that) just picked a day because they thought we ought to have a celebration of Yorkshire.

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                                        jim lahey
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                                        Not at all.

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                                        It was celebrated in 1975, by the Yorkshire Ridings Society, initially in Beverley, as "protest movement against the Local Government re-organisation of 1974", The date alludes to the Battle of Minden, and also the anniversary of the emancipation of slaves in the British Empire in 1834, for which a Yorkshire MP, William Wilberforce, had campaigned

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