On Wed, 24 Jan 2007 08:35:29 -0500, "Ray O'Hara"
wrote:


"Conscious Pilate" wrote in message
u...
Heaven is where the police are British, the chefs Italian, the mechanics
German, the lovers French and it is all organized by the Swiss.

Hell is where the police are German, the chefs British, the mechanics
French, the lovers Swiss and it is all organized by Italians.



that joke is at least 25 years old, but for some reason it has been posted
on every news group in the last week.


My wife used a variation of that joke as a keynote speaker at an
international symposium in Davos, Switzerland about 20 years ago. It
brought down the house and no one was offended by it.