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Funny Foreign English phrases

  • 22-07-2008 12:29pm
    #1
    dak
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,577 ✭✭✭


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


    2. At a Budapest zoo:
    PLEASE DO NOT FEED THE ANIMALS.
    IF YOU HAVE ANY SUITABLE FOOD, GIVE IT TO THE GUARD ON DUTY.


    3. Doctor's office in Rome:
    SPECIALIST IN WOMEN AND OTHER DISEASES.


    4. Information booklet about using a hotel air conditioner. Japan:
    COOLES AND HEATES: IF YOU WANT CONDITION OF WARM AIR IN YOUR ROOM, PLEASE CONTROL
    YOURSELF.


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


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


    7. In Aamchi Mumbai restaurant:
    OPEN SEVEN DAYS A WEEK, AND WEEKENDS TOO.


    8. The best! In a Tokyo bar:
    SPECIAL COCKTAILS FOR THE LADIES WITH NUTS.


    9. Hotel, Japan:
    YOU ARE INVITED TO TAKE ADVANTAGE OF THE CHAMBERMAID.


    10. 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.

    11. 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.


    12. Advertisement by a Hong Kong dentist:
    TEETH EXTRACTED BY THE LATEST METHODISTS.


    13. A laundry in Rome:
    LADIES, LEAVE YOUR CLOTHES HERE AND SPEND THE AFTERNOON HAVING A GOOD TIME.


    14. Tourist agency, Czechoslovakia:
    TAKE ONE OF OUR HORSE-DRIVEN CITY TOURS. WE GUARANTEE NO MISCARRIAGES.


    15. Advertisement for donkey rides, Thailand:
    WOULD YOU LIKE TO RIDE ON YOUR OWN ASS?


    16. The box of a clockwork toy made in Hong Kong:
    GUARANTEED TO WORK THROUGHOUT ITS USEFUL LIFE.


    17. Airline ticket office, Copenhagen:
    WE TAKE YOUR BAGS AND SEND THEM IN ALL DIRECTIONS.


    18. In a Japanese cemetery:
    PERSONS ARE PROHIBITED FROM PICKING FLOWERS FROM ANY BUT THEIR OWN GRAVES.


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