Guest guest Posted March 11, 2000 Report Share Posted March 11, 2000 Weekend : ) Dorothea sent this joke on the internet Confused English (I) << 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 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 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 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. (hopeless wines :-) * 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. * Similarly, from the Soviet Weekly: There will be a Moscow Exhibition of Arts by 15,000 Soviet Republic painters and sculptors. These were executed over the past two years. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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