GillMar Posted February 26, 2012 Share Posted February 26, 2012 I am sitting at my computer, looking at Sheffield History Website and my printer spuks out a shopping list!! It is my overly orderly husband who has our shopping list saved to his computer and revises it every week, especially lately when we get 10% off our bill when we go on Tuesday to shop at the local supermarket. This is for the "over sixties". I must admit we never run out of anything but I had to stifle a giggle when the list came through for me to cast my eye over and add what I think necessary (not that I ever do). “Heaven is where the police are British, the cooks are French, the mechanics are German, the lovers are Italian and it is all organised by the Swiss. Hell is where the police are German, the cooks are English, the mechanics are French, the lovers are Swiss, and it is all organised by the Italians”. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
THYLACINE Posted February 27, 2012 Share Posted February 27, 2012 I am sitting at my computer, looking at Sheffield History Website and my printer spuks out a shopping list!! It is my overly orderly husband who has our shopping list saved to his computer and revises it every week, especially lately when we get 10% off our bill when we go on Tuesday to shop at the local supermarket. This is for the over sixties". I must admit we never run out of anything but I had to stifle a giggle when the list came through for me to cast my eye over and add what I think necessary (not that I ever do). “Heaven is where the police are British, the cooks are French, the mechanics are German, the lovers are Italian and it is all organised by the Swiss. Hell is where the police are German, the cooks are English, the mechanics are French, the lovers Swiss, and it is all organised by the Italians”. List of Swiss people that I have heard of (from a much longer list of Swiss people that I have never heard of) Judge for yourself Carl Jung - psychologist Le Corbusier - architect Giacometti - sculptor Jean Paul Marat - revolutionary Jean Jacques Rousseau - revolutionary Zwingli - reformer Albert Einstein - scientist Sepp Blatter - FIFA president Martina Hingis - tenis player Roger Federer - tennis player Erich Von Daniken - writer Herman Hesse - nobel prize, literature Ursula Andress - phew! Yul Brynner - actor Rudolph Steiner - philosopher & educator Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DaveH Posted February 27, 2012 Share Posted February 27, 2012 List of Swiss people that I have heard of (from a much longer list of Swiss people that I have never heard of) Judge for yourself Carl Jung - psychologist Le Corbusier - architect Giacometti - sculptor Jean Paul Marat - revolutionary Jean Jacques Rousseau - revolutionary Zwingli - reformer Albert Einstein - scientist Sepp Blatter - FIFA president Martina Hingis - tenis player Roger Federer - tennis player Erich Von Daniken - writer Herman Hesse - nobel prize, literature Ursula Andress - phew! Yul Brynner - actor Rudolph Steiner - philosopher & educator No William Tell? He had an overture written about him Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bayleaf Posted February 27, 2012 Share Posted February 27, 2012 I used to work with a lady who always did her shopping at the same branch of Sainsbury's. her husband set up a shopping list for her that was arranged in the order of the shelves in the store. This worked for a couple of years then suddenly the store re-arranged all the shelves, and she nearly had a breakdown! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ukelele lady Posted February 28, 2012 Share Posted February 28, 2012 List of Swiss people that I have heard of (from a much longer list of Swiss people that I have never heard of) Judge for yourself Carl Jung - psychologist Le Corbusier - architect Giacometti - sculptor Jean Paul Marat - revolutionary Jean Jacques Rousseau - revolutionary Zwingli - reformer Albert Einstein - scientist Sepp Blatter - FIFA president Martina Hingis - tenis player Roger Federer - tennis player Erich Von Daniken - writer Herman Hesse - nobel prize, literature Ursula Andress - phew! Yul Brynner - actor Rudolph Steiner - philosopher & educator I always thought Yul Brynner was Russian born or did he become a Swiss National later? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DaveH Posted February 28, 2012 Share Posted February 28, 2012 I always thought Yul Brynner was Russian born or did he become a Swiss National later? Yes so did I, his real name is something like Yuliy Borisovich Brynner and he came from Validivostok on Russia's Pacific coast. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bayleaf Posted February 29, 2012 Share Posted February 29, 2012 I always thought Yul Brynner was Russian born or did he become a Swiss National later? Pretty much spot on Dave! Exotic leading man of American films, famed as much for his completely bald head as for his performances, Yul Brynner masked much of his life in mystery and outright lies designed to tease people he considered gullible. It was not until the publication of the books "Yul: The Man Who Would Be King" and "Empire and Odyssey" by his son Yul "Rock" Brynner that many of the details of Brynner's early life became clear. He sometimes claimed to be a half-Swiss, half-Japanese named Taidje Khan, born on the island of Sakhalin; in reality he was the son of Boris Bryner, a Swiss-Russian engineer and inventor, and Marousia Blagovidova, the daughter of a Russian doctor. He was born in their home town of Vladivostok on 11 July 1920, and named Yuli after his grandfather Jules Bryner. When Yuli's father abandoned the family, his mother took him and his sister Vera to Harbin, Manchuria, where they attended a YMCA school. In 1934 Yuli's mother took her children to Paris. Her son was sent to the exclusive Lycée Moncelle, but his attendance was spotty. He dropped out and became a musician, playing guitar in the nightclubs among the Russian gypsies who gave him his first real sense of family. No wonder people are confused! (From http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000989/bio ) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GillMar Posted February 29, 2012 Author Share Posted February 29, 2012 List of Swiss people that I have heard of (from a much longer list of Swiss people that I have never heard of) Judge for yourself Carl Jung - psychologist Le Corbusier - architect Giacometti - sculptor Jean Paul Marat - revolutionary Jean Jacques Rousseau - revolutionary Zwingli - reformer Albert Einstein - scientist Sepp Blatter - FIFA president Martina Hingis - tenis player Roger Federer - tennis player Erich Von Daniken - writer Herman Hesse - nobel prize, literature Ursula Andress - phew! Yul Brynner - actor Rudolph Steiner - philosopher & educator Hermann Hesse was born in Calw, Germany Albert Einstein was born in Ulm, Germany but attended a school in Aarau, Canton Aargau, Switzerland, a school I used to pass each day. Yul Bryner is "assumed to be a descendant of an Aargauer family "Briner", pronunciation the same as "Bryner". There are so many stories about him, I don't know what to believe, but I was always told he was as Swiss as Ursula Andress. Some more Swiss: Madame Tussaud born Anna Maria Grossholz daughter of an executor in Switzerland. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DaveH Posted February 29, 2012 Share Posted February 29, 2012 List of Swiss people that I have heard of (from a much longer list of Swiss people that I have never heard of) Judge for yourself Carl Jung - psychologist Le Corbusier - architect Giacometti - sculptor Jean Paul Marat - revolutionary Jean Jacques Rousseau - revolutionary Zwingli - reformer Albert Einstein - scientist Sepp Blatter - FIFA president Martina Hingis - tenis player Roger Federer - tennis player Erich Von Daniken - writer Herman Hesse - nobel prize, literature Ursula Andress - phew! Yul Brynner - actor Rudolph Steiner - philosopher & educator Another famous Swiss man, much to my own liking and tastes, Philippe Suchard, chocolatier Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stuart0742 Posted February 29, 2012 Share Posted February 29, 2012 Another famous Swiss man, much to my own liking and tastes, Philippe Suchard, chocolatier What about Theodor Tobler (1876 - 1941) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
THYLACINE Posted March 1, 2012 Share Posted March 1, 2012 Wow, thats the last time I copy a list from the net. Still, nothing like a bit of controversy to get the members' thought processess working. How boring if they had all been Swiss! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ukelele lady Posted March 1, 2012 Share Posted March 1, 2012 Wow, thats the last time I copy a list from the net. Still, nothing like a bit of controversy to get the members' thought processess working. How boring if they had all been Swiss! It just goes to show THYLACINE, never believe what you read on the net especially if you are searching ancesters. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GillMar Posted March 4, 2012 Author Share Posted March 4, 2012 Not only Tobler and Suchard but Kunzle Cakes. The founder of the firm in Birmingham was Christian Kunzle born 1876 in Davos. And then of course there was Louis Chevrolet from La Chaux-de-Fonds. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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