nice takes, Glo! sorry to hear about your ocd clients -- ugh...

and yay for Bizenghast!

who is Bizenghast? can you make a link that works??? i want to see the dress!!!!Have fun in Cali!!I want to see the pirate exhibit too!!!

Try this one:
http://www.qutieland.com/products/big/DPJ0006-10.jpg

That's the problem with Qutieland-their website has really old/archaic technology running it, so their links are very temperamental...

Bizenghast is a manga-a story told in comic-book form. It's about a girl who sees ghosts and has to free a ghost every night from a mausoleum. Here's a link to where you can read it online:
http://www.tokyopop.com/product/1398

I haven't read the whole series, but books 1-4 would probably be okay for you to read

cool!

I suppose you mean a Swiss bank ...

Sweden: yellow/gold Latin cross on blue, up to borders

Switzerland: white/silver Greek cross on red, within borders

Sweden: between Finland, Baltic Sea, Denmark (with Sea Straights), North Sea and Norway

Switzerland: between Germany, Austria, Liechtenstein, Italy and France

Swedes: tall
Swiss: short and stumpy

Sweden: icebears (no, actually those are further up, in Norway)
Switzerland: chamois (really)

Sweden: iron, wood, tetrapaks
Switzerland: watches, Swiss army knives and banks

Sweden: sea coast, woods, plains and mountains
Switzerland: mountains without seacoast, and a lot higher up, woods also, valleys instead of plains

Sweden: Lutheran and secularised in most areas
Switzerland: Catholic or Calvinist

Sweden: centralised parliamentary constitutional "monarchy" very few referendums
Switzerland: very decentralised confederation of local and regional republics, often referendums

BOTH: chocolate, milk chocolate, milk chocolate with nuts, yellow cheese, ski resorts, going to Spain or Greece for tourist seasons

+ (how could I forget):

Sweden, native languages: Swedish (mainly), Finnish, Lapponian

Switzerland, native languages: Germann/Alemannisch, French, Italian, Romansch

Thanks for the distinctions, Hans! We should have a trivia quiz sometime to see who remembers most of them!

You are welcome.

By the way, on the Pilgrimage Chartres - Paris I met a girl who looked a bit like you Erausquins, particularly Agnes Regina.

Indeed! Well, it certainly was not I, but hopefully I shall be able to do that pilgrimage sometime!

I know it was not you, I thought it might have been one of your sisters, until we talked and she presented herself.

She is French, from Anjou.

Knowing a country's language is sometimes useful.

Someone just wrote me saying:

"Dearest in Christ"

(Swiss do not greet that way)

"I am Gretchen Mishra"

(Mishra is not Swiss, Gretchen is diminutive)

"from Switzerland"

(clearly not)

"I am married to Tom Mishra"

(Tom is not a Swiss form of Thomas - in Sweden, yes, but in Switzerland, no: why Sweden, because we had emigration to "Viskonsin" and so on, why not Switzerland, because in French "une tomme" is a kind of cheese)

On the pilgrimage there were numerous pilgrims from Switzerland, and Bishop Tissier de Mallerais is from the area of Fribourg (which was once surrounded by newly reformed protestant cities, but remained Catholic, thanks to St Peter Canisius S. J.).