one of the few movies where you can see a character try to kill their selves in all sorts of ways.

Thanks! It's gonna take like all day to get the coffee out of this keyboard! ;)

Hopefully it was not magic coffee or that freaking keybroad is going to be jumping off the wall and talking back all day long.

Perhaps this is a good idea for future incidents?
Even magic-coffee-affected keyboards don't last long against a Magic Shotgun (TM).

Better check the hit rate on that thing, these dam key things tend to have rather high dodge skills.

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A small, backwater town created a superstition to draw visitors to their hick town...like that hasn't happened before with a certain creature called Nessie. Just be glad we only have to put up with the rodent one day out of the year, and as said it gave us a great movie.

Meteorilogical News from tinyE and than Phil....somehow I was expecting the beginning of a new ice age or enormous sunspots threaten the earth.....but its ok everyone has a bad day

I'm surprised they didn't find Phil frozen to death, given how cold it has been lately. Also, strangely, I agree with your characterization of Phil as a "a little fucker." I've never liked him, and those guys in the top-hats who hold him up in the air are just creepy. :)

Here in Switzerland, our meteorological experts use all manner of interesting methods to predict the weather. One of those experts specializes on ants. If there are lots of female ants, the summer will supposedly be dry. If there are more male ants, the summer will be wet. Further more, if the weather will be nice the ants won't bite you that much but if the weather is going to be bad, the ants will bite you more, especially in the head. I'll bet you didn't know that.
Here is a video but it's in Swiss German so you won't understand anything:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JHd-_sn3o80

Interesting fact: Those traditional weather wizards are famous for being way more accurate than the meteorological news on national TV (though that isn't too surprising).


and here's the same guy with English subtitles:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G0y1QZtoDK4

Isn't that the funny guy from one of the swiss tourism commercials on TV? The one who's eating the snow to tell how the winter will be? Yeah, it's him! Great.

I do understand "scho a chli Schwiizer Dütsch" (worked in a hotel where most guest were from Switzerland), but this guy is unbelievable. He's the real Alpöhi.

It is him, indeed. He is one of the famous Muotathaler Wetterschmöcker (= 'weather sniffers from Muotathal')
They're definitely a bunch of very interesting characters.

Christ. I don't usually have a problem with Schwizerdütsch - I can usually understand it on TV without the usual subtitles and when I'm in Switzerland - but that is just absurdly heavy.

Then again, I guess Swiss German has its Platt and Hoch dialects as well.

Yes, there are some dialects that even native Swiss German speakers find difficult.
One could say that a Stadtzürcher has as much trouble understanding Walliser or Hasliberger dialects as a Stadtberliner has trouble understanding Plattdeutsch and Nordfriesisch. I'd rather recite medieval German poetry than have someone give me directions in Friesisch, seriously...

Here's for an easier to understand weather report (standard Zürcher dialect):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E3-UfPCubsE

And for contrast some distinctly harder to understand directions in Walliser dialect
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y1rzAjmxob8