We love receiving links to funny bloopers. These funny restaurant signs were sent in from a professor of English who uses them in her class.
The following funny restaurant and hotel signs are real. We think the people who wrote these are in desperate need of our online proofreading services!
Sign in a Bangkok bar:
“The shadiest cocktail bar in Bangkok.”
- In English the word “shady” can also mean unsavory or dangerous. This bar is proudly claiming to be a bad place to visit!
Sign in a Taiwan cafeteria:
“Please keep chair on position and keep table cleaned after dying.”
- After dying? This should probably have said dining!
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.”
-Too late, we already read it!
In a Bucharest hotel lobby:
“The lift is being fixed for the next day. During that time we regret that you will be unbearable.”
-An unbearable person is an individual who other people do not like to spend time with because they are intolerable or awful. This sign should have said, “Tomorrow the lift will be fixed. During this time we regret to tell you that you will be unable to use it.”
In a hotel in Athens:
“Visitors are expected to complain at the office between the hours of 9 and 11 A.M. daily.”
- So all visitors have to make a complaint? Maybe this should have been written as, “Any visitors with complaints should make them at the office between the hours of 9 and 11 A.M. daily.”
On the menu of a Swiss restaurant:
“Our wines leave you nothing to hope for.”
- We don’t know what the intended message of this one was, but we do know that it doesn’t encourage us to try the wine!
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 tailor’s shop at the Penisula Hotel:
“Ladies have fits upstairs.”
-To have a fit is to have a convulsion or an involuntary spasm. This should have said, “Ladies have fittings upstairs.
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