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Dull Men sometimes travel. In addition to enjoying the airplane
meals, watching luggage carousels, and riding escalators, they get a kick out of
some of the signs they see:
Sign in a hotel in Moscow, across from a Russian Orthodox
Monastery:
"You are welcome to visit the cemetery where famous Russian
and Soviet composer, artists, and writers are buried daily except Thursday"
Sign in an airport ticket office in Copenhagen:
"We take your bags here and send them in all
directions"
A sign in a Hong Kong supermarket:
"For your convenience, we recommend courteous, efficient,
self-service"
Sign at the Moscow airport:
"If this is your first visit to the USSR you are welcome
to it"
Sign outside a shop door in Lagos:
"Don't go into another shop to be cheated -- come in
here"
Sign for another shop in Lagos:
"Ears pierced while you wait. Pay for TWO and get another
ONE pierced FREE"
Sign outside a barber shop in Beijing:
"Haircuts half price today. Only one per customer"
Sign in a shop in Bolivia:
"Broken English spoken perfectly"
Sign in a hotel in London:
"All fire extinguishers must be tested at least five days
before any fire"
Sign for a restaurant in Jakarta:
"Lunch served from 12:30 to mid-October"
Sign by an elevator in a hotel in Doha:
"Please do not use this lift when it is not working"
Sign outside a cafe in Paris:
"We serve five o'clock tea at all hours"
Sign at a camping site in the 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 for that purpose"
Ad in a Cairo newspaper:
"Home wanted for friendly Labrador. Will eat anything --
loves children"
Sources: some of these have been collected from newspapers, many
came from the book Silly Signs, compiled by John Jerome, published by
Michael O’Mara Books Limited, London (we haven’t been able to find a link to
this book in Amazon or in any other web site).
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