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![]() An Italian hotel brochure: This hotel is renowned for its peace and solitude. In fact, crowds from all over the world flock here to enjoy its solitude. Sign at a French swimming pool: Swimming is forbidden in absence of the Saviour. Menu at an Athens hotel: Chopped-up cow with wire through it. (Shish kebab.) A Polish tourist brochure: As for the tripe served you at the Hotel Monopol, you will be singing its praises to your grandchildren as you lie on your deathbed. In a Tokyo Hotel: Is forbidden to steal hotel towels please. If you are not a person to do such thing is please not to read notis. In a Leipzig elevator: Do not enter the lift backwards, and only when lit up. On the menu of a Swiss restaurant: Our wines leave you nothing to hope for.
On the menu of a Polish hotel:
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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: In a Copenhagen airline ticket office:
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In a Paris hotel elevator:
Please leave your values at the front desk.
In a Yugoslavian hotel: In a Japanese hotel: In the lobby of a Moscow hotel
across from a Russian Orthodox monastery:
In an Austrian hotel catering
to skiers: In a Bucharest hotel lobby: In a Belgrade hotel elevator: Lisbon hotel:
Rome hotel: French hotel: French restaurant menu: |
Peoples will left the rooms at midday of tomorrow in place of not which will be more money for hole day. Creative daily specials, including select offerings of beef, foul, fresh vegetables, salads, quiche. 7 ounces of choice sirloin steak, boiled to your likeness and smothered with golden fried onion rings. Visitors are expected to complain at the office between the hours of 9 and 11 AM daily. Bangkok Dry Cleaners: Drop your trousers here for best results.
Soviet Newspaper: There will be a Moscow exhibition of Arts by 15,000 Soviet Republic painters and sculptors. These were executed over the past two years. Czech Tourist Agency:
Take one of our horse-driven city tours. We guarantee no miscarriages.
Rome hotel: Fire! It is what can doing, we hope. No fear. Not ourselves. Say quickly to all people coming up down everywhere a prayer. Always a clerk. He is assured of safety by expert men who are in the bar for telephone for the fighters of the fire come out. French hotel: A sports jacket may be worn to dinner, but no trousers. French restaurant menu: Extract of fowl, peached or sunnyside up. Peoples will left the rooms at midday of tomorrow in place of not which will be more money for hole day. |
If you are stolen, call the police at once.
Please omnivorously put the waste in garbage can.
Deformed man Lavatory~ WIRED Magazine Jun 2000
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The Washington
Post: Winning submissions to its yearly contest in which
readers are asked to supply alternate meanings for common words.
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The winners of the
Washington Post's Mensa Invitational, which once again asked readers
to take any word from the dictionary, alter it by adding, subtracting, or
changing one letter, and supplying a new
definition: The 2006
winners were:
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"We must be very careful not to take actions that could harm consumers."...President George W. Bush wrote in a letter to Republican senators.
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