Friday, July 18, 2008

Swiss Odour

On the back of a can of Neutradol I read these words: 'The Swiss odour problem solver'. What is this Swiss odour? Is it some woody, nutty amalgam of Toblerone and cuckoo clocks? Is it the bracing tang of ski boots, mountain air and cow bells? I think we should be told.

6 comments:

  1. odour = usually defined as a lasting quality or taste attaching to something, when applied to Swiss cheese, for instance, is directly proportional to its mass and inversely proportional to the square of the distance.

    It it can also, of course, refer to the finely calibrated pong of mould and money. Or, indeed, to the Swiss lawyer who runs a suicide clinic and intends to offer his services to people who are not terminally ill...

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  2. It's definitely the smell of money, the cold dank air of Swiss bank vaults where those secret accounts lie.

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  3. I know exactly what it means, as I had a Swiss girlfriend for eleven days.

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  4. Very obviously, a "Swiss Odour Problem Solver" is an odour that solves problems. The mists of time shroud a secret known only to a small remnants of an old alpine mountain tribe: MARTIAL CHEESE...

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