This past Saturday we did a living history Christmas event at Hyde St. Pier, where the premise was that the year was 1901, and all the living history people spoke of that time in the present tense. ("Let's see, that was five years ago--1896, remember?") A troop of Boy Scouts were listening to the ship's cook go on about how many times he had rounded Cape Horn, as he whittled on a piece of wood. When he asked "Any questions?" one of the boys said, "Yeah, where'd you get that Swiss Army knife?" Without missing a beat, he replied "Switzerland--on our last voyage there!"