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11-15-2005, 04:32 PM #1
Signs from around the world - expect to laugh
The following are signs seen overseas where the actual message became somewhat lost in translation.
In a Bucharest hotel lobby:
The lift is being fixed for the day. During that time we regret that you will be unbearable.
In a Belgrade 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 & 11am 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 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 for skiers:
Not to perambulate the corridors in the hours of repose in the boots of ascension.
On a menu in a Swiss restaurant:
Our wines leave you nothing to hope for.
On a menu in a Polish hotel:
Salad a firm's own make; limpid red beer 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 Tokyo hotel:
Please take advantage of the chambermaids.
In a Hong Kong supermarket:
For your convenience we recommend courteous, efficient self-service.
In a Hong Kong dress 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 the Arts by 15,000 Soviet Republic painters and sculptors. These were executed over the past 2 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 porter.
In Germany's Black Forest:
It is strictly forbidden on our Black Forest camping site that people of different sex, for instance men & women, live together in one tent unless they are married for that purpose.
An ad by a Hong Kong dentist:
Teeth extracted by the latest Methodists.
A Russian chess book:
A lot of water has been passed under the bridge since this variation has been played.
In the window of a Swedish furrier:
Fur coats made for the ladies from their own skin.
On a box of a clockwork toy in Hong Kong:
Guaranteed to work throughout its useful life.
Detour sign in Kyushu, Japan:
Stop---Drive sideways.
Swiss mountain inn:
Special today--no ice cream
Copenhagen airline ticket office:
We take your bags and send them in all directions.
Moscow hotel room:
If this is your first visit to the USSR, you are welcome to it.
Norwegian cocktail lounge:
Ladies are requested not to have children in the bar.
Budapest zoo:
Please do not feed the animals. If you have any suitable food, give it to the guard on duty.
A notice in a Japanese hotel (ca. 1950):
Please not to steal towels. If you are not person to do such, please not to read notice.
Office of a Roman doctor:
Specialist in women and other diseases.
Acapulco hotel:
The manager has personally passed all the water served here.
Tokyo shop:
Our nylons cost more than common, but you'll find that they are best in the long run.
Japanese instructions on an air conditioner:
Cooles & heates: If you want just condition of warm in your room, please control yourself.
Car rental brochure 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 talking. Here speeching American.
A sign on the lion cage at a zoo in the Czech Republic:
No smoothen the lion.
At Rome's airport:
Foreign Axchange.
A Finnish hotel's instructions in case of fire:
If you are unable to leave your room, expose yourself in the window.
In a Japanese restaurant (ca. 1950):
We reserve the right to serve refuse to anyone..
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11-15-2005, 05:54 PM #2
AC, now that's a lot of research! ...or, you've just spent a lot of time at hotels!!
Last edited by schindlerpiste; 11-15-2005 at 05:57 PM.
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11-15-2005, 06:23 PM #3out
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Originally Posted by yogachik
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11-15-2005, 06:52 PM #4
Ich Leibe Oesterreich!!
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11-16-2005, 10:05 AM #5
A sign from Amsterdam:
A "Coffeeshop" in Amsterdam
We don't sell coffee
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11-16-2005, 10:15 AM #6Originally Posted by yogachik
Sprite"I call it reveling in natures finest element. Water in its pristine form. Straight from the heavens. We bathe in it, rejoicing in the fullest." --BZ
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11-16-2005, 10:40 AM #7Originally Posted by Hayduke
Last edited by schindlerpiste; 11-16-2005 at 05:58 PM.
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11-16-2005, 02:09 PM #8
Well giggle worthy. Thank You
...Remember, those who think Global Warming is Fake, also think that Adam & Eve were Real...
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11-16-2005, 02:37 PM #9Originally Posted by Hayduke
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11-17-2005, 02:10 AM #10
well done,very funny.
Calmer than you dude
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11-20-2005, 03:50 PM #11
From today's Independent (England):
Broken English
Big drive on in Beijing at the moment to eliminate howlers from the city's
bilingual signs ahead of the Olympics. A local professor recently found
disabled loos marked "Deformed man toilet;" "Staff Only" rendered as "Office
area, please do not coming;" and "Keep off the grass" as "Preserve green
grass and retain the green colour." Other English horrors reported to China
Daily are: airport emergency exits labelled "No entry on peacetime;" sign
warning of a wet road ahead: "The slippery are very crafty;" and an official
sign above the entrance to the Park of Ethnic Minorities calling it "Racist
Park.".
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