ENGLISH
AS SHE IS SOMETIMES SPOKE!
If the world still consider English
as the universal lingua franca, not all has fully grasp it. An European Community
"Exhibition of English as she sometimes spoke" was held in Brussels, Belgium.
If you think that your English is not up standard, then read on... it might
make you feel better about your handicap.
A notice in a Paris
hotel elevator reads: "Please leave your values at the desk."
An Austrian hotel warns
climbers "not to perambulate the corridors in the hours of repose in the boots
of ascensions."
A hotel lobby sign in Bucharest
shows an equally disarming frankness. "The lift if being fixed for the
day. During that time we regret you will be unbearable."
Japanese hotels are
more friendly. "You are invited to take advantage of the chambermaid."
A toy fair in Spain had
this description of what happens when you toss a doll in the air. "Laughs while
you throw up."
Here's one unwittingly typical example
of British nudge-wink humour. "Ladies who have kindly undertaken
to act as school wardens are reminded again that if they attempt to carry out
their duties without their clothes on, motorists are unlikely to take notice
of them."
In Norway: "Ladies
are requested not to have children in the bar."
Spotted in a Moscow hotel
room: "If this is your first visist to the Soviet Union, you are welcome to
it."
Outside a Bangkok temple:
"It is forbidden to enter a woman even a foreigner if dressed as a man."
In a Tokyo bar: "Special
cocktails for ladies with nuts."
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