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 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 more 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 fob
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."
On 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."
Outside a Paris dress shop:
"Dresses for street walking."
In and advertisement by a Hong Kong dentist:
"Teeth extracted by the latest Methodists."
In a Copenhagen airline ticket office:
"We take your bags and send them in all directions."
In an Acapulco hotel:
"The manager has personally passed all the water served
here."