Funny foreign signs

While I think these signs are quite funny, at least these foreign countries are TRYING to speak our language. Maybe we should work harder at learning theirs!

Foreign Signs

Funny "English" Foreign Signs:

In a Tokyo Hotel:
Is forbidden to steal hotel towels please. If you are not a person to
do such a 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 lift backwards, and only when lit up.

In a Belgrade hotel elevator:
To move 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 job of the
chambermaid.

In a Japanese hotel:
You are invited to take advantage of the chambermaid.

In the lobby of a Moscow hotel across from Russian Orthodox
monastery:
You are welcome to visit the cemetery where famous Russian and Soviet
composers, artists, and writers are buried daily except Thursday.

In an Austrian hotel catering to skiers:
Not to perambulate the corriders during the hours of repose in the
boots of ascension.

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 Hong Kong tailer shop:
Ladies may have a fit upstairs.

In a Bangkok dry cleaners:
Drop your trousers here for best results.

Outside a Paris dress shop:
Dresses for street walking.

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

>From the Soviet Weekly:
There will be a Moscow Exhibition of Arts by 150,000 Soviet Republic
painters and sculptors. These were executed over the past two years.

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

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

In a Czechoslovakin tourist agency:
Take one of our horse-driven city tours - we guarantee no
miscarriages.

Advertisement for donkey rides in Thailand:
Would you like to ride on your own ass?

In a Swiss mountain inn:
Special today -- no ice cream.

In a Bangkok temple:
It is forbidden to enter a woman even a foreigner if dressed as a man.

In a Tokyo bar:
Special cocktails for the ladies with nuts.

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

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

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.

In a Tokyo shop:
Our nylons cost more than common, but you'll find they are best in the
long run.

>From a Japanese information booklet about using a hotel air conditioner:
Cooles and Heates: If you want just condition of warm in your room,
please control yourself.

>From a brochure of a car rental firm in Tokyo:
When passenger of foot heave in sight, tootle the horn. Trumpet him
melodiously at first, but if he still obstacles your passage then
tootle him with vigor.

Two signs from a Mojorcan shop entrance:
- English well speaking
- Here speeching American.

Macrobiotic diet

Well... I have been on the Adkins diet, Weight Watchers, Curves, The Sacred Heart Diet (found out it wasn't from Sacred Heart at all), the cabbage soup diet, Used Eola Drops (found out that the ephedra in them was actually not good for you although they worked brilliantly), belonged to T.O.P.S. (take off pounds sensibly)and probably have tried others out there that I didn't mention. The shot story longer is that none of them actually worked. Well, I take that back... ALL of them worked, but I always gained the weight back and more. My friend Amy and I would laugh when we were in high school saying that when we got older we would never say, "I wish I weighed what I did in high school." I have now been out of high school for twenty years, and I have seen the pictures of us when we were in high school. Unfortunately I do wish I just stuck to that weight in high school. It is strange how your perceptions change.

I have never tried the macrobiotic diet, and that is what I am doing now. At least that is what I am trying to do now. It isn't as easy as it sounds.
A macrobiotic diet (or macrobiotics), from the Greek "macro" (large, long) and "bios" (life), is a dietary regimen that involves eating grains as a staple food supplemented with other foodstuffs such as vegetables and beans, and avoiding the use of highly processed or refined foods. Macrobiotics also address the manner of eating, by recommending against overeating, and requiring that food be chewed thoroughly before swallowing. According to Wikipedia.

So I am reading lots of books and surfing the web constantly in order to find the information I need for this diet. I have decided to take the information I like about it and apply it to my life. For example, according to Wikipedia you are supposed to eat:
Whole cereal grains, especially brown rice: 50-60%
Vegetables: 25-30%
Beans and legumes: 5-10 %
Miso soup: 5%
Which is basically what I have read in other books as well. I really like fruit, and I don't think that fruit should have a bad name. I eat all kinds of fruit, but I don't add any kind of sweetener to it. I have also cut out most animal products including cheese which is one of my favorite foods.

My parents are eating what I cook, but my dad likes any diet as long as he doesn't have to give up butter, meat, sugar, or anything else that he eats. My mom is doing a better job although she is taking a day or two off a week which I have never understood the concept of doing. Don't get me wrong. I love the idea, but if I go off a diet... I am done. I guess that is the mind set that I have to get out of.

So wish me luck!

Another summer story problem

I really liked Jill's story problem, so I decided to make my own. Mine is much more simple of course.


24 Hours
+Clear liquids
- Solid Foods
+ Entire bottle of Fleet
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= One Very used toilet




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How to make Goop

Ok... I decided to share with you the family secret of goop. I hope that you aren't too dissapointed to see how easy it is to actually make. I asked my dad the other day where the recipe came from and he said that our grandmother had read it in a magazine when he was a boy. The original recipe also had pistachios in it, but the goop I grew up with never had pistachios. Apparently because of the supply and demand at the time pistachios were extremely expensive. While I do like to eat pistachios, I do not like it in my goop.

Goop recipe:

two packages 8oz cream cheese
two cloves pressed fresh garlic (garlic lovers might want to add more!)
two heaping tablespoons sour cream
one bunch green onions chopped

In a large bowl add cream cheese, pressed garlic and sour cream. Mix with electric mixer until combined and creamy. Add chopped green onions and mix just until green onions are equally dispersed in the goop. (If you mix the green onions for two long, your goop will turn green.... YUCK!) Refrigerate (if it makes it to the fridge) for a couple of hours for best taste. Eat with pretzles.

Some advice... If you are trying to make it lower calorie, you can use the 1/3 fat cream cheese. I use one package of 1/3 fat cream cheese and one package of full fat cream cheese myself. You can use nonfat cream cheese, but the taste is terrible to me.

Please do not try to substitute the fresh garlic with garlic powder or garlic from a jar. You will not get the same flavor. All ingredients should be as fresh as possible for optimal taste.

Some of my relatives will eat goop with other kinds of chips. My dad likes corn chips, and some people like regular potato chips. My sister and I prefer to stick to pretzels which is how we always ate it as kids. My mom likes to use goop instead of mayonaise on her BLT sandwich.

Let me know how it turns out!

I am loving Face Book

I am loving Face Book lately. I have come across people who I haven't seen in years. It is really neat to see how people are doing, and to get back in touch with people. Through Face book I have been able to reconnect with friends who I met in Japan who are now living in other countries, high school friends, and old neighbors who lived down the street from us more than 20 years ago. How cool is that?