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Pastimes : Laughter is the Best Medicine - Tell us a joke
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To: John Messbauer who wrote (6206)7/20/1998 9:38:00 PM
From: Mark  Read Replies (1) of 62551
 
Here are some signs and notices written in English 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 thing is please not to read notice.

In a Paris hotel elevator:

Please leave your values at the front desk.

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

Soviiet 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 cleaner's:

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.

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.

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 Rome 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 talking.

- Here speeching American.
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