Favilink | Useful Weblinks

Having traveled to a great many countries around the world, the following brings back some wonderful memories of various hotels, restaurants, trains and buses.

One has to smile – and to remember that these people are doing their best!

FUNNY ENGLISH NOTICES AROUND THE WORLD!
---------------------------------------
         Here are some signs and notices written in English that were
         discovered throughout the world.  You have to give the writers an
         'E' for Effort.  We hope you enjoy them.

  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 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 the 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 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 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 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 talking.
         -   Here speeching American.
 

From: http://www.danielsen.com/jokes/signs.txt.