IrishOboe

Thanks for keeping in touch. I, too, am posting other things -- but I am working on our vacation story, really.

I disagree with Janet about how funny that is - I even had to ask what was supposed to be funny.  Maybe it's familiarity:
http://www.geo-fennel.de/home.php
http://www.aaa.uni-karlsruhe.de/download/LEBEN_UND_STUDIEREN.pdf (page 5)
http://www.caseih.com/files/tbl_s46IVDGalleryItems%5CDocumentVideo303%5C1050%5CAFX-Clusive_5C2000_DOO.pdf (last page)
http://www.uhren-schmuck.de/aktuelles/markennews/Tissot-Immer-gut-im-Rennen-mit-der-Tissot-T-Race.html (second paragraph: their old slogan)
http://www.hamburg-economy.de/res/downloads/hn0206e.pdf (page 4 - innovative gymnasts...)
http://www.cigar-cult.at/deutsch/bb303.htm (fifth paragraph)
http://www.runkom.de/dateien/ssc/Ausstellerverzeichnis_SCC2006.pdf (page 14, numbered 23)

The aim in all cases, as I understand it, is to inspire trust in future behavior by recalling consistent past behavior.  I'm not sure what's funny about that - isn't it one important reason we trust God?

(There, Janet, you have my defense, as requested.)

What in the world happened to my formatting?!?

I don't know what's up with the formatting. I'll have to ask the webmaster. I think I see the misunderstanding here. Obviously it is fashionable for the Swiss to use English for slogans and you grew up with them so they seem normal to you. There is not much that would let me know that you are not an American through and through, but this might be a tiny case. I would not have found it so funny if it said something like "A tradition of excellence" or even "A tradition of innovation." It is fine to state that you have a history. What makes it funny is that it is BY tradition, like it is the tradition that makes it innovated. It's a subtlety that is there for some of us (at least my parents laughed at it). God is good and is worthy to be trusted. History shows us that, but a good track record doesn't make God good. Am I the one who's off on the meaning of this construction?

I'm not sure what the formatting was supposed to be, but I've put in links and added breaks where I think you put them. Some of the links spill off the edge, but they still work.

There are only a few html tags allowed at this point. If there's something in particular you want to use, let me know and I'll see if I can allow it.

I'm guessing that the main thing you want is to be able to put in paragraph spacing. You can do that by putting the break tag where you want a new line. Hmmm, let's see how I can write that so it shows up in this comment.... What you want is <br />. Ah, it worked! There are two of them between "allow it." and "I'm guessing" above. I put them in when I typed the comment, but you don't see them because you see the actual breaks instead. I'm sorry it's so complicated!

About the ad...I thought it funny because it seems to sport an attitude of everything being so hidebound and stuffy that the only way they can be innovative is to claim it's traditional. "Of course we're innovative -- it's traditional!" (Notice that the italic tag is one of the ones allowed.) But whatever, the ad clearly served its purpose; we're talking about it. Kind of like the modern art we were unwittingly sucked into near the Paper Museum -- the red glove thing.

Despite Stephan's having caught on so quickly to the formatting trick, I decided to change the blog settings so that "Enter" will put line feeds into the comments.

If it worked, this comment should have two paragraphs, and it should save us a few <br />'s.

Look Mom, a <br>!
and another! <br>
oh well.

Brrrr! Must be cold in Switzerland. :)

Sure isn't here. Oh, and you're getting rain, too! We need rain; a lot of rain. (But preferably in small doses; I've no desire for another hurricane.)

You can see an instant comparison of the weather in Basel and Orlando on our home page.

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