sinjun

Subject: FW: Lost in translation

> >
> > In a Bangkok temple:
> > "IT IS FORBIDDEN TO ENTER A WOMAN, EVEN A FOREIGNER, IF DRESSED AS
A
> > MAN."
> >
> > Cocktail lounge, Norway:
> > "LADIES ARE REQUESTED NOT TO HAVE CHILDREN IN THE BAR."
> >
> > Doctors office, Rome:
> > "SPECIALIST IN WOMEN AND OTHER DISEASES.
> >
> > Dry cleaners, Bangkok:
> > "DROP YOUR TROUSERS HERE FOR THE BEST RESULTS.
> >
> > In a Nairobi restaurant:
> > "CUSTOMERS WHO FIND OUR WAITRESSES RUDE OUGHT TO SEE THE MANAGER."
> >
> > On an Athi River highway:this is the main road to Mombasa, leaving
> >Nairobi.
> > "TAKE NOTICE: WHEN THIS SIGN IS UNDER WATER, THIS ROAD IS
> >IMPASSABLE."
> >
> > On a poster at Kencom:
> > "ARE YOU AN ADULT THAT CANNOT READ? IF SO, WE CAN HELP."
> >
> > In a City restaurant:
> > "OPEN SEVEN DAYS A WEEK AND WEEKENDS."
> >
> > A sign seen on an automatic restroom hand dryer:
> > "DO NOT ACTIVATE WITH WET HANDS."
> >
> > In a cemetery:
> > "PERSONS ARE PROHIBITED FROM PICKING FLOWERS FROM ANY BUT THEIR
OWN
> >GRAVES."
> >
> > Tokyo hotel's rules and regulations:
> > "GUESTS ARE REQUESTED NOT TO SMOKE OR DO OTHER DISGUSTING
BEHAVIOURS
> > IN BED."
> >
> > On the menu of a Swiss restaurant:
> > "OUR WINES LEAVE YOU NOTHING TO HOPE FOR."
> >
> > In a Tokyo bar:
> > "SPECIAL COCKTAILS FOR THE LADIES WITH NUTS."
> >
> > Hotel, Yugoslavia (pa ti vidi)
> > "THE FLATTENING OF UNDERWEAR WITH PLEASURE IS THE JOB OF THE
> >CHAMBERMAID."
> >
> > Hotel, Japan:
> > "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."
> >
> > 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 THIS PURPOSE."
> >
> > Hotel, Zurich:
> > "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."
> >
> > Advertisement for donkey rides, Thailand:
> > "WOULD YOU LIKE TO RIDE ON YOUR OWN ASS?"
> >
> > The box of a clockwork toy made in Hong Kong:
> > "GUARANTEED TO WORK THROUGHOUT ITS USEFUL LIFE."
> >
> > In a Swiss mountain inn:
> > "SPECIAL TODAY - NO ICE-CREAM."
> >
> > Airline ticket office, Copenhagen:
> > "WE TAKE YOUR BAGS AND SEND THEM IN ALL DIRECTIONS."
> >
> > A laundry in Rome:
> > "LADIES, LEAVE YOUR CLOTHES HERE AND SPEND THE AFTERNOON HAVING A
> >GOOD TIME."