Yes, there was even one famous Slovene novelist in 1918 who said on one meeting something like: "We must join with Croats and Serbs to resist the Italian and German imperialism, but it is impossible to make an unique, new nation from Serbs, Croats and Slovenes since our culture, customs, language and the way of thinking are different from Croatian and Serbian ones. Our farmers and their way of thinking is much more related to the way of thinking of a Tyrol farmer, than by Croat or Serb farmer. Therefore don't force us into something what we are not."
And yes, Slovenes are very stingy when it goes for money
Yes, Slovenes produced some of the finest soldiers during WWII who certainly weren't in the disgrace of its nation, although majority of them were forced to fight for the Axis cause. Recently I also discovered that Germany's second kanzler Graf Leo von Caprivi was of Slovene origin, who made his way from a small village near Kocevje (Gottschee) to Germany, to become Germany's second kanzler, succeding Bismarck, who spoke highly about Graf Caprivi: "He's the best horse in our stable", he liked to say.
Just to fill you here with some other petty obscure details, very few people are aware of.
Gratia,
Octavianus
Maybe you should write a book or at least sum up all the info in this thread and paste it on a website....hell maybe I'll do it if I have the time! 
