English Spoken Here
The thinking that we are has brought us to where we have already been. In order
to go somewhere else, we must think in a different way. -- Albert Einstein
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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.
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In a Bucharest hotel lobby: The lift is being fixed for the next day.
During that time we regret that you will be unbearable.
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In a Leipzig elevator: Do not enter the lift backwards, and only when
lit up.
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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.
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In a Paris hotel elevator: Please leave your values at the front
desk.
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In a hotel in Athens: 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: The flattening of underwear with pleasure is
the job of the chambermaid.
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In a Japanese hotel: You are invited to take advantage of the
chambermaid.
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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.
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In an Austrian hotel catering to skiers: Not to perambulate the
corridors in the hours of repose in the boots of ascension.
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On the menu of a Swiss restaurant: Our wines leave you nothing to
hope for.
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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.
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Outside a Hong Kong tailor shop: Ladies may have a fit upstairs.
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In a Bangkok dry cleaner's: Drop your trousers here for best results.
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Outside a Paris dress shop: Dresses for street walking.
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In a Rhodes tailor shop: Order your summers suit. Because is big rush
we will execute customers in strict rotation.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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In an advertisement by a Hong Kong dentist: Teeth extracted by the
latest Methodists.
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In a Rome laundry: Ladies, leave your clothes here and spend the
afternoon having a good time.
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In a Czechoslovakian tourist agency: Take one of our horse-driven
city tours - we guarantee no miscarriages.
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Advertisement for donkey rides in Thailand: Would you like to ride on
your own ass?
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In a Swiss mountain inn: Special today -- no ice cream.
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In a Bangkok temple: It is forbidden to enter a woman even a
foreigner if dressed as a man.
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In a Tokyo bar: Special cocktails for the ladies with nuts.
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In a Copenhagen airline ticket office: We take your bags and send
them in all directions.
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On the door of a Moscow hotel room: If this is your first visit to
the USSR, you are welcome to it.
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In a Norwegian cocktail lounge: Ladies are requested not to have
children in the bar.
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In a Budapest zoo: Please do not feed the animals. If you have any
suitable food, give it to the guard on duty.
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In the office of a Roman doctor: Specialist in women and other
diseases.
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In an Acapulco hotel: The manager has personally passed all the water
served here.
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In a Tokyo shop: Our nylons cost more than common, but you'll find
they are best in the long run.
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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.
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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.
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Two signs from a Majorcan shop entrance:
- English well talking.
- Here speeching American.
