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 Paris hotel elevator: "Please leave your values at the front desk."
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."
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 cleaner's: "Drop your trousers here for best results."
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 Arts by 15,000 Soviet Republic painters and sculptors. These were executed over the past two years."
In a Rome laundry: "Ladies, leave your clothes here and spend the afternoon having a good time."
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 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."
Two signs from a Majorcan shop entrance: "English well talking." "Here speeching American."
Sign in a hotel corridor in Istanbul: "Please to evacuate in hall especially which is accompanied by rude noises."
At a Budapest zoo: Please do not feed the animals. If you have any suitable food, give it to the guard on duty.
In a Swiss mountain inn: Special today -- no ice cream.
Detour sign in Kyushi, Japan: Stop: Drive Sideways.
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.
In a Czechoslovakian tourist agency: Take one of our horse-driven city tours -- we guarantee no miscarriages.
Outside a Hong Kong tailor's shop: "Ladies may have a fit upstairs
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