>>Why the distinction? You can't be thinking that the rest of the swiss cities are just fresh off the assembly line, while Basel alone is endowed with truckloads of history.
If I say you are a witty Slavic curmudgeon, does that mean you're unique? ;-) Or am I perhaps providing a description for those unlucky enough not to have appreciated your canny/caustic humor for all these years? ;-)
"... They ne'er cared for us
yet: suffer us to famish, and their store-houses
crammed with grain; make edicts for usury, to
support usurers; repeal daily any wholesome act
established against the rich, and provide more
piercing statutes daily, to chain up and restrain
the poor. If the wars eat us not up, they will; and
there's all the love they bear us."
-- Shakespeare: Coriolanus, Act 1, scene 1
