Two signs from a Majorcan shop entrance:
- English well talking.
- Here speeching American.
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.
In a Bangkok temple:
It is forbidden to enter a woman even a foreigner if dressed as a man.
On the menu of a Swiss restaurant:
Our wines leave you nothing to hope for
Sign in a London department store:
Bargain Basement upstairs
In an office:
After tea break staff should empty the teapot and stand upside down on the draining board.
On a church door:
This is the gate of heaven. Enter ye all by this door. (This door is kept lock because of the draft. Please use side door)
In a German cafe:
Mothers, please wash your hans before eating.
Sign outside a new town hall which was to be opened by the Prince of Wales:
The town hall is closed until opening. It will remain closed after being opened. Open tomorrow.
Notice sent to residents of a Whiltshire parish:
Due to increasing problems with letter louts and vandals we must ask anyone with relatives buried in the graveyard to do their best to keep them in order.
Notice in a dry cleaner’s window:
Anyone leaving their garments here for more than 30 days will be disposed of
Sign on motorway garage:
Please do not smoke near our petrol pumps. Your life may not be worth much but our petrol is
Notice in health food shop window:
Closed due to illness
Message on a leaflet:
If you cannot read, this leaflet will tell you how to get lessons
Sign in Egyptian hotel:
If you require room service, please open door and shout, "room service!"
On the wall of a Baltimore estate:
Trespassers will be prosecuted to the full extent of the law.—Sisters of Mercy
In a Florida maternity ward:
No children allowed.
In a New York medical building:
Mental Health Prevention Center
In the window of a Kentucky appliance store:
Don’t kill your wife. Let our washing machine do the dirty work.
In a Maine restaurant:
Open 7 days a week and weekends.
In a Pennsylvania cemetery:
Persons are prohibited from picking flowers from any but their own graves.
On a Tennessee highway:
When this sign is under water, this road is impassable.
Spotted in a safari park:
Elephants please stay in you car.
Outside a second-hand shop:
We exchange anything - bicycles, washing machines etc. Why not bring your wife along and get a wonderful bargain?
Sign on a repair shop door:
We can repair anything. (please knock hard on the door - the bell doesn’t work)
"I am" is reportedly the shortest sentence in the English language. Could it be that "I do" is the longest sentence? -George Carlin
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