In the Soviet Weekly newspaper:
The will be a Moscow Exhibition of Arts by 15,000 Soviet Republic painters and sculptors.
These were executed over the past two years.
In an East African newspaper:
A new swimming pool is rapidly taking shape since the contractors have thrown in
the bulk of their workers.
A sign posted in the Black Forest in Germany:
It is stricly 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 together
for that purpose.
In a Zurich hotel:
Because of impropriety of entertaining guests of the oppoiste sex in the bedroom,
it is suggested that the lobby is used for this purpose.
In a Rome laundry:
Ladies, leave your clothes here and spend the afternoon having a good time.
In a Czechoslvak tourist agency:
Take one of our horse-driven city tours - we guarantee no miscarriages.
On the faucet in a finnish wash room:
To stop the drip, turn cock to the right.
In the window of a Swedish furrier:
Fur coats made for ladies from their own skin.
On the box of a clockwork toy made in Hong Kong:
Guaranteed to work throughout its useful life.
Detour sign in Kyushi, Japan:
Stop: Drive Sideways.
In a Bangkok temple:
It is forbidden to enter a woman even a foreigner if dressed as a man.
In a Copenhagen ticket office:
We take your bags and send them in all directions.
In a norwegian cocktail lounge:
Women are requested not to have children in the bar.
At a Budapest zoo:
Please do not feed the animals.
If you have any suitable food, give it to the guard on duty.
In a Acapulco hotel:
The manager has personally passed all the water served here.
From a japanese information booklet about using a hotel air contitioner:
Cooles and Heates: If you want just condition of warm in your room,
please control yourself.
Two signs from a Majorcan shop entrance:
- English well talking.
- Here speeching american.
In a Tokyo hotel:
It is forbidden to steal hotel towels please.
If you are not a person to do such thing is please not to read notis.
In a japanese hotel:
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 cementery where famous Russian and Soviet composers,
artists, and writers are buried daily except Thursday.
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Credits: The examples comes from the English institution at the University of Gothenburg in Sweden,
where I attended a course in English 1991.
If you have more of these, or have any other comments, send me an E-mail.