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English as a Second Language
Quotes picked up from alt-quotations in August 2000:
Dresses for street walking.
-- Outside a Paris dress shop.
Do not enter the lift backwards, and only when lit up.
-- In a Leipzig Elevator
Drop your trousers here for best results.
-- In a Bangkok dry cleaner's.
For your convenience, we recommend courageous, efficient self-service.
-- In a Hong Kong supermarket
It is not allow in the hotel room for guest participating in Illicit Arts, banging of firecrackers, gambling and wrestling.
-- Hotel Jincheng (Shenyang, China)
Ladies are requested not to have children in the bar.
-- In a Norwegian cocktail lounge.
Ladies may have a fit upstairs.
-- Outside a Hong Kong tailor shop.
Not to perambulate the corridors in the hours of repose in the boots of ascension.
-- In an Austrian hotel catering to skiers
Our wines leave you nothing to hope for.
-- On the Menu of a Swiss Restaurant
Please leave your values at the front desk.
-- In a Paris Hotel Elevator
Please to bathe inside the tub.
-- In a Japanese Hotel Room
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.
-- On the Menu of a Polish Hotel
The flattening of underwear with pleasure is the job of the chambermaid.
-- In a Yugoslavian Hotel
The lift is being fixed for the next day. During that time we regret that you will be unbearable.
-- In a Bucharest Hotel Lobby
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 Belgrade Hotel Elevator
Visitors are expected to complain at the office between the hours of 9 and 11 A.M. daily.
-- In a Hotel in Athens
We take your bags and send them in all directions.
-- In a Copenhagen airline ticket office.
Would you like to ride on your own ass?
-- Advertisement for donkey rides in Thailand.
You are invited to take advantage of the chambermaid.
-- In a Japanese Hotel
You are welcome to visit the cemetery where famous Russian and Soviet composers, artists, and writers are buried daily except Thursday.
-- In the Lobby of a Moscow Hotel Across from a Russian Orthodox Monastery
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I also have English as a second language - thus if you find anything similar in Anyara, please let me know - and we'll smile together... - Neptunia :-)
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