little humor jdy ----- Original Message > > Subject: SIGNS IN ENGLISH - IN FOREIGN COUNTRIES > > > 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." > > In a Bangkok temple: > "IT IS FORBIDDEN TO ENTER A WOMAN, EVEN A FOREIGNER, IF DRESSED AS A MAN." > > On an Athi River highway: > "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." > > A sign seen on an automatic restroom hand dryer: > "DO NOT ACTIVATE WITH WET HANDS." > > 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." > > The box of a clockwork toy made in Hong Kong: > "GUARANTEED TO WORK THROUGHOUT ITS USEFUL LIFE." > > In a Swiss mountain inn: > "SPECIAL TODAY - NO ICE-CREAM." > > 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." > > > > > Do you Yahoo!? > Yahoo! Small Business - Try our new resources site! > >
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