FAMOUS MISTRANSLATIONS

FAMOUS MISTRANSLATIONS 2018-02-13T16:13:09+00:00

DRY CLEANERS – TAILORS – LAUNDROMATS

Ladies may have a fit upstairs.
-outside a Hong Kong tailor shop

Drop your trousers here for best results.
-in a Bangkok dry cleaner’s

Order your summers suit. Because is big rush we will execute customers in strict rotation.
-in a Rhodes tailor shop

Ladies, leave your clothes here and spend the afternoon having a good time.
-in a laundry in Rome

RESTAURANTS

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

Our wines leave you nothing to hope for.
-on the menu of a Swiss restaurant

PAY ATTENTION TO THE WARNING SIGNS

The lift is being fixed for the next day. During that time we regret that you will be unbearable.
-in a Bucharest hotel lobby

Do not enter the lift backwards, and only when lit up.
-in a Leipzig elevator

In case of fire, do your utmost to alarm the hotel porter.
-in a Vienna 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 a Zurich hotel

Please do not feed the animals. If you have any suitable food, give it to the guard on duty.
-at the Budapest zoo

Stop: Drive Sideways.
-detour sign in Kyushu, Japan

For your convenience, we recommend courteous, efficient self-service.
-in a Hong Kong supermarket

TOURIST ATTRACTIONS

Take one of our horse-driven city tours – we guarantee no miscarriages!
-in a Czech tourist agency

Would you like to ride on your own ass?
-advertisement for donkey rides in Thailand

We take your bags and send them in all directions.
-in a Copenhagen airline ticket office

If this is your first visit to the USSR, you are welcome to it.
-on the door of a Moscow hotel room

“There will be a Moscow Exhibition of Arts by 15,000 Soviet Republic painters and sculptors. These were executed over the past two years.”
-from a Soviet weekly

Ladies are requested not to have children in the bar.
-in a Norwegian cocktail lounge

Special cocktails for the ladies with nuts.
-in a Tokyo bar

The manager has personally passed all the water served here.
-in an Acapulco hotel

IN NEED OF MEDICAL ATTENTION?

Specialist in women and other diseases.
-in the office of a doctor in Rome

Teeth extracted by the latest Methodists.
-in an advertisement by a Hong Kong dentist

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