Swiss Government Jokes

After the invention of digital watches, the Swiss were in quite a bind... Faced with what seemed like an existential threat to their national watch manufacturers, the Swiss Government send out pamphlets to foreign and domestic watch owners, asking them to sign up if they were interested in buying mechanical watches as gifts or fashion statements. Unfortunately, no one signed up. The Swiss were mystified, until they realized their mistake: No one wants to be on a government watch list.

The Thin Swiss Wire A crew of Swiss engineerers was tasked by their government to create a wire as thin as possible. The project took months, years to finish, but at last, they succeeded. They produced a piece of extremely thin wire. It was so thin that they could not even measure how thin it actually was. Not only that, but it was also durable. They could not cut or shorten it, no matter how hard they tried. The Swiss Government was very proud of what their engineers created, but before they …