The English language can be very confusing
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Non-English speaking countries sometimes go out of their way to communicate with their English-speaking tourists with interesting results:
- Cocktail lounge, Norway: Ladies 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.
- Doctor's office, Rome: Specialist in women and other diseases.
- 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.
- In a Nairobi restaurant: Customers who find our waitresses rude ought to speak to the manager.
- In the grounds of a Nairobi private school: No trespassing without permission.
- In a Mumbai restaurant: Open seven days a week, and weekends too.
- In a Tokyo bar: Special cocktails for the ladies with nuts.
- Hotel, Japan: You are invited to take advantage of the chambermaid.
- In the lobby of a masc. 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.
- 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.
- Advertisement by a Hong Kong dentist: Teeth extracted by the latest Methodists.
- A laundry in Rome: Ladies, leave your clothes here and spend the afternoon having a good time.
- Tourist agency, Czechoslovakia: Take one of our horse-driven city tours we guarantee no miscarriages.
- Advertisement for donkey rides, Thailand: Would you like to ride on your own ass?
- The box of a clockwork toy made in Hong Kong: Guaranteed to work throughout its useful life.
- Airline ticket office, Copenhagen: We take your bags and send them in all directions.
- In a Japanese cemetery: Persons are prohibited from picking flowers from any but their own graves
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....saw one the other day
written on a garage door: NO BARKING ALLOWED...
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