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- From: murali@stretch.polymer.uakron.edu (Murali Cotah)
- Subject: Inklish
- Message-ID: <1992Dec24.222029.19816@news.uakron.edu>
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- Organization: Institute of Polymer Science, University of Akron
- Date: Thu, 24 Dec 1992 22:20:29 GMT
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- These were sent to me by a friend of mine -- collected and probably pirated (!) - so i cannot acknowledge anyone for this compilation.
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- In a Tokyo Hotel: Is forbitten to steal hotel towels please. If
- you are not person to do such thing is please not to read notis.
-
- In another Japanese hotel room: Please to bathe inside the tub.
-
- 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 Leipzig elevator: Do not enter the lift backwards, and only
- when lit up.
-
- 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 Paris hotel elevator: Please leave your values at the front
- desk.
-
- 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.
-
- 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.
-
- In an Austrian hotel catering to skiers: Not to perambulate the
- corridors in the hours of repose in the boots of ascension.
-
- On the menu of a Swiss restaurant: Our wines leave you nothing
- to hope for.
- n the menu of a Polish hotel: Salad a firm's own make; limpid
- red beet soup with cheesy dumplings in the form of a finger; roasted
- duck let loose; beef rashers beaten up in the country people's fashion.
-
- In a Hong Kong supermarket: For your convenience, we recommend
- courteous, efficient self-service.
-
- Outside a Hong Kong tailor shop: Ladies may have a fit upstairs.
-
- In a Rhodes tailor shop: Order your summers suit. Because is big
- rush we will execute customers in strict rotation.
-
- Similarly, from the Soviet Weekly: There will be a Moscow Exhibition
- of Aets by 15,000 Soviet Republic painters and sculptors. These
- were executed over the past two years.
-
- In an East African newspaper: A new swimming pool is rapidly taking
- shape since the contractors have thrown in the bulk of their workers.
-
- In a Vienna hotel: In case of fire, do your utmost to alarm the hotel
- porter.
-
- 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.
-
- A translated sentence from a Russian chess book: A lot of water
- has been passed under the bridge since this variation has been played.
-
- 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?
-
- On the faucet in a Finnish washroom: To stop the drip, turn cock
- to right.
-
- In the window of a Swedish furrier: Fur coats made for ladies from
- their own skin.
-
- On the box of a clockwork toy made in Hong Kong: Guaranteed to
- work throughout its useful life.
-
- Detour sign in Kyushi, Japan: Stop: Drive Sideways.
-
- 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.
-
- At 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: COOLERS AND HEATERS: IF YOU WANT JUST CONDITION OF WARM
- in your room, please control yourself.
-
- From a brochure of a car rental firm in Tokyo: When passenger of
- foot heave in sight, tootle the horn. Trumpet him melodiously at
- first, but if he still obstacles your passage then tootle him with
- vigor.
-
- Two signs from a Majorcan shop entrance:
- - English well talking.
- - Here speeching American.
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- sure beats the russian emigre jokes in russian.
-
- merry xmas
-
- cotah
-