





| And what is this thing called Czech Culture? Well, it's roast pork, dumplings and sauerkraut first of all. And a weird language without a lot of vowels, including the famous sentence: strst prst skrz krk -- shove a finger down your throat. Vanna couldn't make a dime really. There are the odd names too, and I can joke that "at least I wasn't name Vyecheslav like grandpa wanted." -- but see my HL World for more on, well, names like Hlavac. I'm sure it'll tickle your funny bone. It's also having had to deal with oppressive neighbors like Austrians, Germans and Russians recently, and Poles, Hungarians, Germans and Swedes in the past. As well as having to deal with the Catholic Church. No matter how Catholic any Czech claims to be -- Czech culture is imbued with the 200 years of war against the Pope by the people of Bohemia and Moravia, and then the sullen resistance after the war was lost. |