{"id":184,"date":"2017-01-01T15:14:49","date_gmt":"2017-01-01T14:14:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wordpress-232648-741634.cloudwaysapps.com\/?p=184"},"modified":"2017-01-01T15:14:49","modified_gmt":"2017-01-01T14:14:49","slug":"funny-signs-and-inscriptions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.englishforward.com\/blog\/funny-signs-and-inscriptions\/","title":{"rendered":"Funny Signs And Inscriptions"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

\nJapanese Hotel: “You are invited to take advantage of the chambermaid”<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n

Moscow Hotel near Orthodox Monastery: “You are welcome to visit the cemetery where famous Russian and Soviet composers, artists and writers are buried daily except Thursday”<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n

A sign posted in Germany’s Black forest:\u00a0“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<\/g> each other for that purpose”<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n

Advertisement for donkey rides, Thailand:\u00a0“Would you like to ride on your own a s<\/g><\/g> s<\/g>?”<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n

A laundry in Rome:\u00a0“Ladies, leave your clothes here and spend the afternoon having a good time<\/strong>“<\/p>\n\n\n

Rome Doctor’s Office:\u00a0“Specialist in women and other diseases”<\/strong>
Swiss Restaurant Menu:\u00a0“Our wines leave you nothing to hope for”<\/strong>
Bangkok Dry Cleaners:\u00a0“Drop your trousers here for best results”<\/strong>
Rhodes Tailor Shop:\u00a0“Order your summers suit. Because is big rush we well execute customers in strict rotation.”<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n

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Bucharest Hotel:\u00a0“The lift is being fixed for the next day. During that time we regret that you will be unbearable.”<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n

In the window of an Oregon general store:\u00a0“Why go elsewhere to be cheated, when you can come here?”<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n

On a plumber’s truck:\u00a0“We repair what your husband fixed”<\/strong>
Pepsi’s “Come alive with the Pepsi Generation” translated into\u00a0“Pepsi brings your ancestors back from the grave”<\/strong>, in Chinese.<\/p>\n\n\n

In a Laundromat:\u00a0“Automatic washing machines: please remove all your clothes when the light goes out”<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n

In a London department store:\u00a0“Bargain basement upstairs”<\/strong>
In an office:\u00a0“Would the person who took the step ladder yesterday please bring it back or further steps will be taken”<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n

In an office:\u00a0“After tea break staff should empty the teapot and stand upside down on the draining board”<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n

Outside a secondhand shop:\u00a0“We exchange anything – bicycles, washing machines, etc. Why not bring your wife along and get a wonderful bargain?”<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n

Notice in health food shop window:\u00a0“Closed due to illness”<\/strong>
Spotted in a safari park:\u00a0“Elephants please stay in your car”<\/strong>
Seen during a conference:\u00a0“For anyone who has children and doesn’t know it, there is a day care on the 1st floor”<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n

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Notice in a farmer’s field:\u00a0“The farmer allows walkers to cross the field for free, but the bull charges”<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n

On a repair shop door:\u00a0“We can repair anything (please knock hard on the door – the bell doesn’t work)”<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n

On the menu of a Russian restaurant:\u00a0“The beef language in cream with a mashed potatoes with pine nuts with cheese”<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n

On a Japan elevator:\u00a0“We have a problem with our elevation. The cable is tired due to heavy loads. It will be fixed on. Until this date, residents will be unbearable.”<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n

In a Leipzig elevator:\u00a0“Do not enter the lift backwards, and only when lit up”<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n

In a Belgrade hotel elevator:\u00a0“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.”
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In a Paris hotel elevator:\u00a0“Please leave your values at the front desk”
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In a hotel in Athens:\u00a0“Visitors are expected to complain at the office between the hours of 9 and 11 A.M. daily”
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In a Yugoslavian hotel:\u00a0“<\/strong>The flattening of underwear with pleasure is the job of the chambermaid”<\/p>\n\n\n

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In a Budapest zoo<\/p>\n\n\n

In an Austrian hotel catering to skiers:\u00a0“Not to perambulate the corridors in the hours of repose in the boots of ascension”<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n

On the menu of a Polish hotel:\u00a0“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<\/g> up in the country people’s fashion.”<\/strong>
Outside a Hong Kong tailor shop:\u00a0“Ladies may have a fit upstairs”<\/strong>
Outside a Paris dress shop:\u00a0“Dresses for street walking”<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n

In a Zurich hotel:\u00a0“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”<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n

In an advertisement by a Hong Kong dentist:\u00a0“Teeth extracted by the latest Methodists”<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n

In a Czechoslovakian tourist agency:\u00a0“Take one of our horse-driven city tours – we guarantee no miscarriages”<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n

In a Swiss mountain inn:\u00a0“Special today – no ice cream”<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n

In a Bangkok temple:\u00a0“It is forbidden to enter a woman even a foreigner if dressed as a man”<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n

In a Tokyo bar:\u00a0“Special cocktails for the ladies with nuts”<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n

On the door of a Moscow hotel room:\u00a0“If this is your first visit to the USSR, you are welcome to it”<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n

In a Norwegian cocktail lounge:\u00a0“Ladies are requested not to have children in the bar”<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n

In an Acapulco hotel:\u00a0“The manager has personally passed all the water served here”<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n

In a Tokyo shop:\u00a0“Our nylons cost more than common, but you’ll find they are best in the long run”<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n

From a Japanese information booklet about using a hotel air conditioner:\u00a0“Cooles and Heates: If you want just condition of warm in your room, please control yourself.”<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n

From a brochure of a car rental firm in Tokyo:\u00a0“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.”<\/strong>
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