Friday 25 August 2017

On your travels?...

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If you’re off to foreign climes this Bank Holiday, keep your eyes peeled for some of these hilarious foreign attempts to translate the local lingo into English… all for our benefit of course!

Hong Kong tailor’s shop
  • ·      Ladies may have a fit upstairs

Paris fashion shop
  • ·      We sell dresses for street walking

Swedish fur shop
  • Fur coats made for ladies from their own skin


Swiss mountain inn
  • Special today – no ice cream

Rhodes tailor’s shop
  • ·         Order your summer suit. Because of big rush, we will execute customers in strict rotation

Polish hotel menu


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

Tokyo car rental brochure
  • ·         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 vigour

Majorcan shop
  • ·         English well talking
  • ·         Here speeching American

East African newspaper
  • A new swimming pool is rapidly taking shape since the contractors have thrown in the bulk of their workers

Soviet newspaper
  • A Moscow Exhibition of the Arts by 15,000 Soviet Republic Painters and sculptors. These were executed over the past two years

Hong Kong toy packaging
  • ·         Guaranteed to work throughout it's useful life

Donkey rides in Thailand
  • ·        Would you like to ride on your own ass?

Czech tourist agency
  • ·         Take one of our horse-driven city tours - we guarantee no miscarriages

Hong Kong dentist

  • ·         Teeth extracted by the latest methodists
     Don't forget to share in the comments below any others you spot on holiday this summer!

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