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VERY funny signs found in foreign hotels and resta
Check this out!
--Sergio Cesar Mairena
---------- Forwarded message ----------
Date: Sun, 10 Apr 1994 23:05:43 -0700 (PDT)
From: Edward Aart Korthof <[email protected]>
To: Ben <bwang@bonnie.ics.uci.edu>, [email protected],
Shawn <[email protected]>, Cami <[email protected]>,
Anand <[email protected]>,
Sharon Kim Goetz <[email protected]>,
Andrew Dale Lawrence <[email protected]>,
Sergio <[email protected]>,
Rodney Roy Romasanta <[email protected]>
Subject: Thought you might find this interesting. ^_^
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Date: Fri, 8 Apr 1994 10:04:45 -0400 (EDT)
From: Jessica Shin <[email protected]>
To: [email protected]
Subject: you bet ya
>
>
>These are from signs and notices written in "English" discovered throughout
>the
>world:
>
> -------------------------------
>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 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: "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 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."
>
>In an Austrian hotel catering to skiers: "Not to perambulate the corridors
>in
>the hours of repose in the boots of ascension."
>
>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."
>
>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
>15,000
>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 an advertisement by a Hong Kong dentist: "Teeth extracted by the latest
>Methodists."
>
>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."
>
>At 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
>obtacles your passage then tootle him with vigor."
>
>Two signs from a Majorcan shop entrance: "English well talking" and "Here
>speeching American."
>
> ---------------------------------
>
>
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