Odd factoids

[bruce1530]

A cuckoo cock is the male version of a cuckoo clock.

 

[classic33]

The world’s most extensive and finest collection of cuckoo clocks (with both old and new models) is at the Cuckooland Museum in Cheshire, England.

The cuckoo clock, in its ‘modern’ form, was invented during the 16th century in Germany, and since has diversified into three main types: Black Forest, Swiss chalet and modern quartz.

 

[Bonefish Blues]

The Swiss cuckoo crock, as correctly termed originates from a rather remarkable duality of unusual occurrences.

Cuckoos suffer from vertigo, so only the little-known Plains Cuckoo (Spanish variety) is able to migrate to Switzerland. Sadly, because Switzerland is famous for its mountains, the Swiss have secretly folded up most of their Plains to make them, hence significantly reducing the habitat available to said cuckoo.

The above is exacerbated by the need for the Swiss to capture cuckoos in order to achieve their characteristic yodelling speech as the cuckoo, stuffed down their Swiss Army pants (regulation issue wear for every citizen in that highly-ordered & compliant society) pecks rhythmically at the gentleman's love sausage (thereby giving rise to the term pecker, incidentally) in order to achieve peak yodel.

Caught between these two rather remarkable instances, it's little wonder that the last Swiss cuckoo died in the late C19th. The Swiss nation was so overcome with grief that they created an industry out of horological cuckoo tributes to their part in their extinction (hence their correct name - cuckoo crock)

I guess it's obvious now I've explained it to you, but I'm rather surprised someone hasn't mention this already.

Here's your Swiss undies, should you come across a cuckoo looking as if it's at (or hankering to be at) a loose end:
https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/2-x-Swis...arm-Underwear-Original-Military-/162957546591

 

[Seevio]

Gorillas famously don't know any bodybuilding techniques. This means we have never seen one at full strength.

 

[Drago]

Anthropologists believe that Arnold Schwarzenegger is a male silver back gorilla, the offspring of a pair released by the Swiss Army from the Berlin zoo in 1945.

 

[Seevio]

Technically, it's only physics if the scientist is from the Physique region of France, otherwise it's just sparkling maths.

 

[Drago]

France is named after the Bonnie Tyler song, Lost in France. Prior to that it was known as New Germany.

 

[classic33]

"An employee of a luxury perfumes manufacturer has been awarded €40,000 in compensation by a French court after it was found to have inflicted extreme boredom on him, which amounted to harassment.

Frédéric Desnard had so little to do at his job – that he suffered from “bore-out”, which caused his health to deteriorate."

 

[Drago]

Frederic Desnard now gets all the excitement he can handle at the landmine factory, where he works as a product tester.

 

[Darius_Jedburgh]

Swiss Army Knives were originally invented to get cuckoo clocks out of boy scout's hooves.

 

[twentysix by twentyfive]

The Swiss Army had to be recruited after the Swiss Army Knife was invented. It was the first case of an invention looking for an application.

 

[Bonefish Blues]

The Swiss Army had to be recruited after the Swiss Army Knife was invented. It was the first case of an invention looking for an application.

Although puzzlingly, all the prospective recruits turned up on Swiss Army cycles.

 

[Darius_Jedburgh]

All swiss men have a rifle at home and have to drill with it at least once a year.

 

[Bonefish Blues]

Other Nations have advanced rather more than the Swiss, and now use Makita and Bosch for this purpose.

 

[twentysix by twentyfive]

All swiss men have a rifle at home and have to drill with it at least once a year.

Eventually they get blunt and have to be resharpened. The very narrow tunnel is slowly getting longer tho'.