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.