Signs Seen At Various Foreign Establishments
Fractured English
Don't Write On Walls!
(and underneath) You think I should type?
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 notis. (sic)
In another Japanese hotel room:
Please to bathe inside the tub.
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:
To move the cabin, push button for wishing floor.
If the cabin should enter more persons, each one should
press a number of wishing floor. Driving is then going
alphabetically by national order.
In a Paris 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 A.M. daily.
In a Yugoslavian hotel:
The flattening of underwear with pleasure is the job of the chambermaid.
In the lobby of a Moscow hotel across
from a Russian Orthodox monastary:
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.
At an Acapulco hotel:
The management has personally passed the water served here.
On the menu of a Swiss restaurant:
Our wines leave you nothing to hope for.
On the menu of a 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.
In a Hong Kong supermarket:
For your convenience, we recommend courageous, efficient self-service.
Outside a Hong Kong tailor shop:
Ladies may have a fit upstairs.
Outside a Paris dress shop:
Dresses for street walking.
In a Rhodes tailor shop:
Order your summers 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
15,000 Soviet Republic painters and sculptors.
These were executed over the past two years.
In an East African newspaper:
A new swimming pool is rapidly taking shape since
the contractors have thrown in the bulk of their workers.
In a Vienna hotel:
In case of fire, do your utmost to alarm the hotel porter.
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 guests
of the opposite sex in the bedroom, it is suggested
that the lobby be used for this purpose.
A translated sentence from a Russian chess book:
A lot of water has been passed under the bridge
since this variation has been played.
In a Rome laundry:
Ladies, leave your clothes here and
spend the afternoon having a good time.
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