Wonderful English 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.
Doctor's Office, Rome:
SPECIALIST IN WOMEN AND OTHER
DISEASES.
Dry
Cleaners,
Bangkok:
DROP YOUR TROUSERS HERE FOR
THE BEST
RESULTS.
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 City restaurant:
OPEN SEVEN DAYS A WEEK AND
WEEKENDS.
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 THEN
SPEND THE
AFTERNOON
HAVING A GOOD
TIME.
And finally, the all-time classic, Seen in an Abu
Dhabi Souk
shop window:
IF THE FRONT IS CLOSED,
PLEASE ENTER
THROUGH MY
BACKSIDE.