Funny Foreign English

 

In a Vienna hotel:

In case of fire, do your utmost to alarm the hotel porter.

 

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 purpuse.

 

A translated sentence from a Russian chess book: A lot of water has been passed under the bridge since this variation has been played.

 

In a Rome laundry: Ladies, leave your clothes here and spend the afternoon having a good time.

 

Advertisement for donkey rides in Thailand: Would you like to ride on your own ass?

 

On the tap in a Finnish washroom: To stop the drip, turn cock to right.

 

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 USSR, you are welcome to it.

 

In a Norwegian cocktail lounge:

Ladies are requested not to have children in the bar.

 

At a Budapest zoo:

Please do not feed 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 a hotel in Athens:

Visitors are expected to complain at the office between the hours of 9 and 11 A.M. daily.

 

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.

 

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.

 

On the menu of a Swiss restaurant:

Our wines leave you nothing to hope for. At a Budapest zoo:
PLEASE DO NOT FEED THE ANIMALS. IF YOU HAVE ANY SUITABLE FOOD, GIVE IT TO THE GUARD ON DUTY.

Cocktail lounge, Norway:
LADIES ARE REQUESTED NOT TO HAVE CHILDREN IN THE BAR.

Doctor’s office, Rome:
SPECIALIST IN WOMEN AND OTHER DISEASES.

Hotel, Acapulco:
THE MANAGER HAS PERSONALLY PASSED ALL THE WATER SERVED HERE.

Car rental brochure, 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 VIGOUR.

In a Nairobi restaurant:
CUSTOMERS WHO FIND OUR WAITRESSES RUDE OUGHT TO SEE THE MANAGER.

On the grounds of a private school:
NO TRESPASSING WITHOUT PERMISSION.

On a poster in New York:
ARE YOU AN ADULT THAT CANNOT READ? IF SO, WE CAN HELP.

In a City restaurant:
OPEN SEVEN DAYS A WEEK, AND WEEKENDS TOO.