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- ACTUAL SIGNS SEEN IN FOREIGN COUNTRIES
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- In a Tokyo hotel:
- Is forbitten to steal hotel towels please. If you are not
- person to do such thing is please not to read not is.
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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 the lift backwards, and only when lit up.
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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 ofr 9 and 11 AM 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 a Russian Orthodox
- monastery:
- You are welcome to visit the cemetery where famous Russian and
- Soviet composers, artists, and writers are buried daily except
- thursday.
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- On the menu of a Swiss restaurant:
- Our wines leave you nothing to hope for.
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- In a Hong Kong supermarket:
- For your convenience, we reccommend courageous, efficient self-
- service.
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- Outside a Hong Kong tailor 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
- customers in strict rotation.
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- Similarly, from the Soviet Weekly,
- There will be a Moscow Exhibition of Aets by 15000 Soviet
- Republic painters and sculptors. These were executed over the
- past two years.
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- In an East African newspaper:
- A new swimming pool is rapidly taking shape since the
- contractors have thrown in the bulk of their workers.
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- In a Vienna hotel:
- In case of fire, do your utmost to alarm the hotel porter.
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- A sign posted in Germany's Black Forest:
- It is strictly forbidden on our black forest camping site 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 Czechoslovakian tourist agency:
- Take one of our horse driven city tours - we guarantee no
- miscarriages
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- Advertisement for donkey rides in Thailand:
- Would you like to ride on your own ass?
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- On the faucet in a Finnish washroom:
- To stop the drip, turn cock to right.
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- In the window of a Swedish furrier:
- Fur coats made for ladies from their own skin.
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- On the box of a clockwork toy made in Honk Kong:
- Guaranteed to work throughout its useful life.
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- Detour sign in Japan:
- Stop: Drive Sideways.
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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 as
- a man.
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- In a Tokyo bar:
- 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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- In a Norwegian cocktail lounge:
- Ladies are requested not to have children in the bar.
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- At 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 best
- in the long run.
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- From a Japanese information booklet about using a hotel air
- conditioner:
- 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 your
- passage then tootle him with vigor.
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- Two signs from a Majorcan shop entrance:
- - English well talking.
- - Here speeching American.
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- In a French chalet:
- In case of fire, please ejaculate the premises.
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