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- Here are some signs and notices written in English that were discovered
- throughout the world. You have to give the writers an 'E' for Effort.
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- In a Tokyo Hotel:
- Is forbidden to steal hotel towels please. If you are not
- a person to do such a thing is please not to read notis.
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- In a Bucharest hotel lobby:
- The lift is being fixed for the next day. During that time
- we regret that you will be unbearable.
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- In a Leipzig elevator:
- Do not enter lift backwards, and only when lit up.
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- In a Belgrade hotel elevator:
- To move the cabin, push button for wishing floor. If the
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- cabin should enter more persons, each one should press a
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- number of wishing floor. Driving is then going
- alphabetically by national order.
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- In a Paris hotel elevator:
- Please leave your values at the front desk.
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- In a hotel in Athens:
- Visitors are expected to complain at the office between the
- hours of 9 and 11 A.M. daily.
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- In a Yugoslavian hotel:
- The flattening of underwear with pleasure is the job of the
- chambermaid.
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- In a Japanese hotel:
- You are invited to take advantage of the chambermaid.
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- In the lobby of a Moscow hotel across from Russian Orthodox monastery:
- You are welcome to visit the cemetary where famous Russian
- and Soviet composers, artists, and writers are buried daily
- except Thursday.
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- In an Austrian hotel catering to skiers:
- Not to perambulate the corriders during the hours of repose
- in the boots of ascension.
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- On the menu of a Swiss restaurant:
- Our wines leave you nothing to hope for.
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- On the menu of a Polish hotel:
- Salad a firm's own make; limpid red beet soup with cheesy
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- dumplings in the form of a finger; roasted duck let loose;
- beef rashers beaten up in the country people's fashion.
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- Outside a Hong Kong tailer shop:
- Ladies may have a fit upstairs.
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- In a Bangkok dry cleaners:
- Drop your trousers here for best results.
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- Outside a Paris dress shop:
- Dresses for street walking.
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- In a Rhodes tailor shop:
- Order your summers suit. Because is big rush we will execute
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- customers in strict rotation.
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- From the Soviet Weekly:
- There will be a Moscow Exhibition of Arts by 150,000 Soviet
- Republic painters and sculptors. These were executed over
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- the past two years.
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- A sign posted in Germany's Black Forest:
- It is strictly forbidden on our black forest camping site
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- that people of different sex, for instance, men and women,
- live together in one tent unless they are married with each
- other for that purpose.
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- In a Zurich hotel:
- Because of the impropriety of entertaining guests of the
- opposite sex in the bedroom, it is suggested that the
- lobby be used for this purpose.
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- In an advertisement by a Hong Kong dentist:
- Teeth extracted by the latest Methodists.
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- In a Rome laundry:
- Ladies, leave your clothes here and spend the afternoon
- having a good time.
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- In a Czechoslovakin tourist agency:
- Take one of our horse-driven city tours - we guarantee no
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- miscarriages.
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- Advertisement for donkey rides in Thailand:
- Would you like to ride on your own ass?
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- In a Swiss mountain inn:
- Special today -- no ice cream.
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- In a Bangkok temple:
- It is forbidden to enter a woman even a foreigner if dressed
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- as a man.
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- In a Tokyo bar:
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- Special cocktails for the ladies with nuts.
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- In a Copenhagen airline ticket office:
- We take your bags and send them in all directions.
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- On the door of a Moscow hotel room:
- If this is your first visit to the USSR, you are welcome
- to it.
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- In a Norwegian cocktail lounge:
- Ladies are requested not to have children in the bar.
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- In a Budapest zoo:
- Please do not feed the animals. If you have any suitable
- food, give it to the guard on duty.
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- In the office of a Roman doctor:
- Specialist in women and other diseases.
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- In an Acapulco hotel:
- The manager has personally passed all the water served here.
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- In a Tokyo shop:
- Our nylons cost more than common, but you'll find they are
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- best in the long run.
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- From a Japanese information booklet about using a hotel air conditioner:
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- Cooles and Heates: If you want just condition of warm in your
- room, please control yourself.
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- From a brochure of a car rental firm in Tokyo:
- When passenger of foot heave in sight, tootle the horn.
- Trumpet him melodiously at first, but if he still obstacles
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- your passage then tootle him with vigor.
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- Two signs from a Mojorcan shop entrance:
- - English well speaking
- - Here speeching American.
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