Globi Globi Globi is a Swiss cartoon character occasionally referred to as Switzerland's Mickey Mouse. He is pictured as an anthropomorphic blue parrot with a yellow beak wearing a black beret and a pair of red and black checkered trousers. He was created by the Swiss cartoonist Robert Lips, as an advertising character for the Swiss department store Globus in 1932 for the company's 25th anniversary. He was originally planned to be called "Kimbukku", but later renamed Globi after the local Basel German "(Baseldytsch)" dialect word for the department store that created him. He initially appeared in a cartoon strip called
Swiss Military TAZ 83 Swiss Military TAZ 83 The Swiss Military TAZ 83 is applied to the Swiss Army Kampfanzug 57/70 ("combat dress") and Taz 83 (Tarnanzug, i.e. "camouflage dress". It also is known als "Alpenflag" the commercial/collector name. As military surplus camouflage clothing it came on to the army surplus market in the 1990s. The pattern is based on an experimental all-terrain pattern that saw limited service in World War II by Germany's Waffen-SS and Wehrmacht called Leibermuster. The Kampfanzug 57/70 is a six-colour camouflage pattern consisting of a tan-coloured background with white random flecks with light green body overprinted with a green,