Signophile: SIGNS FOUND AROUND THE WORLD

signophile files: SIGNS FOUND AROUND THE WORLD

Two signs found on top of one another in a country kitchen:

Restrooms : Please wait for hostess to seat you

Sign in front of church : Bingo Friday night at 8:00pm.

Children left unattended will be towed at parents expense.

In a Swiss mountain inn:   Special today - no ice cream.

In a Copenhagen airline ticket office:We take your bags and send them in all directions.

In a Budapest zoo:   

Please do not feed the animals. If you have any suitable food, give it to the guard on

Actual Headlines:

In a Bucharest hotel lobby: The lift is being fixed for the next day.

During that time we regret that you will be unbearable.

 In a Belgrade hotel elevator:

To move the cabin, push button for Wishing floor. If the cabin should enter more

persons, each one should press a number of wishing floor. Driving is then going 

alphabetically by national order.

 In a hotel in Athens:

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

 In a Yugoslavian hotel:

The flattening of underwear with pleasure is the job of the chambermaid.

 In a Japanese hotel: You are invited to take advantage of the chambermaid.

On the menu of a Swiss restaurant:  Our wines leave you nothing to hope for.

 In a Bangkok dry cleaners: Drop your trousers here for best results.

 In a Rhodes Island tailor shop: Order your summers suit. Because is big rush we will execute customers in strict rotation.

 From the Soviet Weekly:

 There will be a Moscow Exhibition of Arts by 150,000 Soviet Republic painters and sculptors. These were executed over the past two years.

 In an advertisement by a Hong Kong dentist: Teeth extracted by the Latest Methodists.

 In a Rome laundry:

Ladies, leave your clothes here and spend the Afternoon having a good time.

 In the office of a Roman doctor:  Specialist in women and other diseases.

 Two signs from a Majorcan shop entrance: English well speaking / Here speeching American.

In the front yard of a funeral home: "Drive carefully. We'll wait."

 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 purpose.

  In a Zurich hotel:

 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.

  (source: from numerous internet sites). Pls. let me know if these are from your sites.