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[/FONT] [FONT=Verdana,Arial,Helvetica]In a Bucharest hotel lobby: The lift is being fixed for the next day. During that time we regret that you will be unbearable.[/FONT]
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[FONT=Verdana,Arial,Helvetica]In a Leipzig elevator: Do not enter lift backwards, and only when lit up.[/FONT]
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[FONT=Verdana,Arial,Helvetica]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.[/FONT]
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[FONT=Verdana,Arial,Helvetica]In a Paris hotel elevator: Please leave your values at the front desk.[/FONT]
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[FONT=Verdana,Arial,Helvetica]In a hotel in Athens: Visitors are expected to complain at the office between the hours of 9 and 11 A.M. daily.[/FONT]
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[FONT=Verdana,Arial,Helvetica]In a Yugoslavian hotel: The flattening of underwear with pleasure is the job of the chambermaid.[/FONT]
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[FONT=Verdana,Arial,Helvetica]In a Japanese hotel: You are invited to take advantage of the chambermaid.[/FONT]
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[FONT=Verdana,Arial,Helvetica]In an Austrian hotel catering to skiers: Not to perambulate the corriders during the hours of repose in the boots of ascension.[/FONT]
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[FONT=Verdana,Arial,Helvetica]On the menu of a Swiss restaurant: Our wines leave you nothing to hope for.[/FONT]
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[FONT=Verdana,Arial,Helvetica]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.[/FONT]
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[FONT=Verdana,Arial,Helvetica]Outside a Hong Kong tailor shop: Ladies may have a fit upstairs.[/FONT]
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[FONT=Verdana,Arial,Helvetica]In a Bangkok dry cleaners: Drop your trousers here for best results.[/FONT]
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[FONT=Verdana,Arial,Helvetica]In a Rhodes tailor shop: Order your summers suit. Because is big rush we will execute customers in strict rotation.[/FONT]
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[FONT=Verdana,Arial,Helvetica]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.[/FONT]
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[FONT=Verdana,Arial,Helvetica]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.[/FONT]
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[FONT=Verdana,Arial,Helvetica]In a Czechoslovakian tourist agency: Take one of our horse-driven city tours - we guarantee no miscarriages.[/FONT]
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[FONT=Verdana,Arial,Helvetica]In a Swiss mountain inn: Special today -- no ice cream.[/FONT]
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[FONT=Verdana,Arial,Helvetica]In a Bangkok temple: It is forbidden to enter a woman even a foreigner if dressed as a man.[/FONT]
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[FONT=Verdana,Arial,Helvetica]In a Tokyo bar: Special cocktails for the ladies with nuts.[/FONT]
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[FONT=Verdana,Arial,Helvetica]In a Copenhagen airline ticket office: We take your bags and send them in all directions.[/FONT]
[FONT=Verdana,Arial,Helvetica]In a Norwegian cocktail lounge: Ladies are requested not to have children in the bar.[/FONT]
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[FONT=Verdana,Arial,Helvetica]In an Acapulco hotel: The manager has personally passed all the water served here.[/FONT]
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[FONT=Verdana,Arial,Helvetica]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.[/FONT]
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