Swiss villages, a travelling ski waxsalesman got caught in a blizzard.

And descending once more into the gutter I'm afraid, I have an amusing pamphlet in French from Solomon who make ski wax amongst other ski paraphernalia (ever used paraphernalium?). The French for ski-wax is "fart", waxing "fartage". so you get such delightful phrases as "L'art de fartage", "Les farts glissements** pour les zone de glissement", "les farts poussees** pour les zone .... ".
** sliding and pushing respectively.
I still have a photo of "Le Tunnel de Fartage" on the ski slope which was a covered perspex walkway with a wax laden floor, with my.. er parson's nose? directed into the tunnel. Of such schoolboy humour is family bonding made.

Rod