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from Around the World
In a Bangkok temple:
IT IS FORBIDDEN TO ENTER
A WOMAN, EVEN A FOREIGNER, IF DRESSED AS A MAN.
Cocktail lounge, Norway:
LADIES ARE REQUESTED NOT
TO HAVE CHILDREN IN THE BAR.
Doctors office, Rome :
SPECIALIST IN WOMEN AND
OTHER DISEASES.
Dry cleaners, Bangkok
:
DROP YOUR TROUSERS HERE
FOR THE BEST RESULTS.
In a Nairobi restaurant:
CUSTOMERS WHO FIND OUR WAITRESSES
RUDE OUGHT TO SEE THE MANAGER
On the main road to Mombasa
, leaving Nairobi :
TAKE NOTICE: WHEN THIS SIGN
IS UNDER WATER, THIS ROAD IS IMPASSABLE.
On a poster at Kencom:
ARE YOU AN ADULT THAT CANNOT
READ? IF SO WE CAN HELP.
In a cemetery:
PERSONS ARE PROHIBITED FROM
PICKING FLOWERS FROM ANY BUT THEIR OWN GRAVES .
Tokyo hotel's rules and
regulations:
GUESTS ARE REQUESTED NOT
TO SMOKE OR DO OTHER DISGUSTING BEHAVIOURS IN BED.
On the menu of a Swiss
restaurant:
OUR WINES LEAVE YOU NOTHING
TO HOPE FOR.
In a Tokyo bar:
SPECIAL COCKTAILS FOR THE
LADIES WITH NUTS.
Hotel, Yugoslavia:
THE FLATTENING OF UNDERWEAR
WITH PLEASURE IS THE JOB OF THE CHAMBERMAID.
Hotel, Japan:
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.
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 THIS PURPOSE.
Hotel, Zurich :
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.
Advertisement for donkey
rides, Thailand
WOULD YOU LIKE TO RIDE ON
YOUR OWN ASS?
Airline ticket office,
Copenhagen :
WE TAKE YOUR BAGS AND SEND
THEM IN ALL DIRECTIONS.
A laundry in Rome :
LADIES, LEAVE YOUR CLOTHES
HERE AND SPEND THE AFTERNOON HAVING A GOOD TIME.
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