SIGN TO READ
On a French passenger Jet:
"Live West under your seat."
In a Tokyo Hotel:
"Is forbidden to steal hotel towels please. If you are not a
person to do such thing is please not to read notis."
In a Bucharest hotel lobby:
"The lift is being fixed for the next day. During that time
we regret that you will be unbearable."
In a Leipzig elevator:
"Do not enter the lift backwards. and only when lit
up."
In a Belgrade hotel elevator:
"Please leave your values at the front desk."
In a hotel in Athens.
"Visitors are expected to complain at the office between the
hours of 9 and 11 am daily."
In a Yugoslav hotel.
"The flattening of underwear with pleasure is the job of the
chambermaid."
In the lobby of a Moscow hotel
across from a Russian monastery:
"You are welcome to visit the cemetery where famous Russian
and Soviet composers, artists and writers are buried daily except
Thursday."
In an Austrian hotel catering to
skiers:
"Not to perambulate the corridors in the hours of repose in
the boots of ascension."
In a Swiss mountain inn:
"Special today: no ice cream."
On the menu of Polish hotel:
"Salad a firm's own make; limpid red beet soup with cheesy
dumplings in the form of a finger; roasted duck let loose; beef
rashers beaten up in the country people's fashion."
Alongside a Hong Kong tailor
shop:
"Ladies may have a fit upstairs."
Two signs from a Majorcan shop
entrance:
"English well talking. Here speeching American."
At a Bangkok dry cleaners:
"Drop your trousers here for best results."
Outside a Paris dress shop. "Dresses for street walking."
At a Rhodes tailor shop:
"Order your summer suit. Because is big rush we will execute
customers in strict rotation."
Similarly from the Soviet
Weekly:
"There will be a Moscow exhibition of arts by 15000 Soviet
Republic painters and sculptors. These were executed over the
past two years"
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."
In a Zurich hotel:
"Because of the impropriety of entertaining guest of the
opposite sex in the bedroom, it is suggested that the lobby be
used for this purpose."
In an advertisement by a Hong
Kong dentist:
"Teeth extracted by the latest Methodists."
In a Norwegian cocktail lounge:
"Ladies are requested not to have children in the bar."
At a Budapest zoo:
"Please do not feed the animals. If you have any suitable
food, give it to the guard on duty."
At the office of a Rome doctor.
"Specialist in women and other deceases."
At an Acapulco Hotel:
"The manager has personally passed all the water served
here."
At a Tokyo shop:
"Our nylons cost more than common, but you'll find they are
best in the long run.
A Japanese information booklet
about using a Hotel air conditioner:
"Cooles and Heater: If you want just condition of warm in
your room. please control yourself.
From a brochure of a car rental
firm in Tokyo:
"When passenger of foot have in sight, tootle the horn.
Trumpet him melodiously at first, but if he still obstacle your
passage, then tootle him with vigor."
In a Copenhagen airline ticket
office:
"We take your bags and send them in all directions."
On the door of a Moscow Hotel
room:
"If this your first visit to the USSR, you are welcome to
it"
Sign on an electrician's truck:
"Let Us Remove Your Shorts."
Sign Outside a radiator repair
shop in a small midwestern town.
"Best Place in Town to Take a Leak."
Sign in a shoe store:
"Come in and have a fit."
Sign over a cannibal's hut:
"I never met a man I didn't like."
Sign at a hotel.
"Help! We need inn-experienced people."
Sign in butchers window:
"Pleased to meat you."
Sign at the dry cleaner's
window:
"Drop your pants here."
Sign at the electic company:
"We would be delighted if you send in your bill. However, if
you don't, you will be."
Sign in beauty shop window:
"Dye now"
Sign on a garbage truck:
"We've got what it takes to take what you've got."
Sign on restaurant window:
"Don't stand there and be hungry. Come in and get fed
up."
Sign in a bowling alley:
"Please be quiet. We need to hear a pin drop."
Sign in a cafeteria:
"Shoes are required to eat in the cafeteria.
Sign on the inside of a bathroom
stall:
"Beware of limbo dancers."&127
Sign in school:
"In case of atomic attack, the federal ruling concerning
prayer in this building will be temporarily suspended."
Sign on an asphalt truck:
"Let us fill your crack!"
Office sign:
"Ace exterminating - we kill bugs dead, walk-ins
welcome."
Sign seen in the vicinity of
Victoria Station:
"Closed for official opening."
Sign at fast-food place:
"PARKING FOR DRIVE-THRU CUSTOMERS ONLY!"
Sign in an East African
newspaper:
"A new swimming pool is rapidly taking shape since the
contractors have thrown in the bulk of their workers."
Sign in a Rome laundry:
"Ladies leave your clothes here and spend the afternoon
having a good time.
Sign in a Czechoslovakian
tourist agency:
"Take one of our horse-driven city tours -- we guarantee no
miscarriages."
Sign Advertisement for donkey
rides in Thailand:
"Would you like to ride on your own ass?"
Sign on the faucet in a Finnish
washroom:
"To stop the drip, turn cock to right."
Sign in the window of a Swedish
furrier:
"Fur coats made for ladies from their own skin."
Sign on an electrician's truck:
"Let Us Remove Your Shorts."
Sign Outside a radiator repair shop in a small midwestern town.
"Best Place in Town to Take a Leak."
Sign in a shoe store:
"Come in and have a fit."
Sign over a cannibal's hut:
"I never met a man I didn't like."
Sign at a hotel.
"Help! We need inn-experienced people."
Sign in butchers window:
"Pleased to meat you."
Sign at the dry cleaner's window:
"Drop your pants here."
Sign at the electic company:
"We would be delighted if you send in your bill.
However, if you don't, you will be."
Sign in beauty shop window:
"Dye now"
Sign on a garbage truck:
"We've got what it takes to take what you've got."
Sign on restaurant window:
"Don't stand there and be hungry. Come in and get fed
up."
Sign in a bowling alley:
"Please be quiet. We need to hear a pin drop."
Sign in a cafeteria:
"Shoes are required to eat in the cafeteria.
Sign on the inside of a bathroom stall:
"Beware of limbo dancers."
Sign in school:
"In case of atomic attack, the federal ruling concerning
prayer in this building will be temporarily
suspended."
Sign on an asphalt truck:
"Let us fill your crack!"
Office sign:
"Ace exterminating - we kill bugs dead, walk-ins
welcome."
Sign seen in the vicinity of Victoria Station:
"Closed for official opening."
Sign at fast-food place:&127
"PARKING FOR DRIVE-THRU CUSTOMERS ONLY!"
Sign in an East African newspaper:
"A new swimming pool is rapidly taking shape since the
contractors have thrown in the bulk of their
workers."
Sign in a Rome laundry:
"Ladies leave your clothes here and spend the afternoon
having a good time.
Sign in a Czechoslovakian tourist agency:
"Take one of our horse-driven city tours -- we guarantee no
miscarriages."
Sign Advertisement for donkey rides in Thailand:
"Would you like to ride on your own ass?"
Sign on the faucet in a Finnish washroom:
"To stop the drip, turn cock to right."
Sign in the window of a Swedish furrier:
"Fur coats made for ladies from their own skin."