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Guest ncm2169
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Maybe this should go in the travels or offshore sections, but enjoy. :D

 

In a Tokyo Hotel: Is forbidden to steal hotel towels please. If you are not a person to do such a thing is please not to read notis.

 

In a Paris hotel elevator: Please leave your values at the front desk.

 

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.

 

Outside a Hong Kong tailor shop: Ladies may have a fit upstairs.

 

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

 

Outside a Paris dress shop: Dresses for street walking.

 

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

 

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.

 

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 a Czechoslovakian tourist agency: Take one of our horse-driven city tours - we guarantee no miscarriages.

 

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

 

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

 

In 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 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 the USSR, you are welcome to it.

 

In a Norwegian cocktail lounge: Ladies are requested not to have children in the bar.

 

In a Budapest zoo: Please do not feed the 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 an Acapulco hotel: The manager has personally passed all the water served here.

 

In a Tokyo shop: Our nylons cost more than common, but you’ll find they are best in the long run.

 

From a Japanese information booklet about using a hotel air conditioner: 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 speaking / Here speeching American.

Guest zipperzone
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Thanks for posting - I got chuckle good over that

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