NICE TRY
Here are some signs and notices written in English -- more or
less -- that were discovered throughout the world.
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.
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 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 a Japanese hotel:You are invited to take advantage of the chambermaid.
In the lobby of a Moscow hotel across from Russian Orthodox 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 corriders during the hours of
repose in the boots of ascension.
On the menu of a Swiss restaurant:Our wines leave you nothing to hope for.
Outside a Hong Kong tailor shop: Ladies may have a fit upstairs.
In a Bangkok dry cleaners : Drop your trousers here for best results.
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.
From the Soviet Weekly : There will be a Moscow Exhibition of Arts by 150,000 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 guests of the opposite
sex in
the bedroom, it is suggested that the lobby be used for this purpose.
In a Rome laundry : Ladies, leave your clothes here and spend the afternoon having
a good
time.
In a Czechoslovakian tourist agency: Take one of our horse-driven city tours - we
guarantee no miscarriages.
Advertisement for donkey rides in Thailand : Would you like to ride on your own ass?
In a Swiss mountain inn : Special today -- no ice cream.
In a Bangkok temple : It is forbidden to enter a woman even a foreigner if dressed
as a man.
In a Tokyo bar : Special cocktails for the ladies with nuts.
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 is your first visit to the USSR, you are
welcome to it.
In a Norwegian cocktail lounge : Ladies are requested not to have children in the bar.
In a Budapest zoo : Please do not feed the animals. If you have any suitable food,
give it to
the guard on duty.
In the office of a Roman doctor: Specialist in women and other diseases.
In an Acapulco hotel : The manager has personally passed all the water served here.
In a Tokyo shop : Our nylons cost more than common, but you'll find they are best
in the
long run.
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.
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.
Two signs from a Majorcan shop entrance : English well speaking / Here speeching
American.
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