Since both its national products, snow and chocolate, melt, the cuckoo clock was invented solely in order to give tourists something solid to remember it by.
Source: The Sanity Inspector, 'And Though They Do Their Best.'
-- Alan Coren, (Jun 27 1938-2007), British writer, satirist; He is a regular panelist on The News Quiz and Call My Bluff and writes both his own and the Notebook columns for The Times.