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Snoopy · Joined: 13 Jul 2003 Posts: 185

Seen in Gran Canaria, where some ladies on the beach had evidently had some rather unfortunate implants there was a sign pointing to the BUST BIN.

sarina · Joined: 03 Jan 2004 Posts: 26

Seen above a picture framers shop in upmarket Digla, Cairo -

"Framing and mating here" - the mind boggles!

Kurochan · Joined: 01 Mar 2003 Posts: 944 Location: China

In Xi'an I saw a sign for a restaurant called "Favourable Wind SouPoxen."

schminken · Posted: Wed Jan 28, 2004 2:45 pm Post subject: signs

I saw a rather bizarre one here in Austria. It was diet Sprite called "Sprite Zero" in a Red Bull size can and the captioning read

"Zero Sugar, No S H I T." What was the marketing there?

Kurochan · Joined: 01 Mar 2003 Posts: 944 Location: China

The Austrian one made me remember a sign I saw in Germany like ten years ago. It was an ad for a cigarette. It featured two men, and you could guess pretty easily they were supposed to be gay (as I remember, one of the guys was wearing leather, had a mustache, etc.). One guy was offering a cig to the other man, saying, "It tastes like a man!" I was like, "Wow! You'd never see that in the US!"

gugelhupf · Joined: 24 Jan 2004 Posts: 575 Location: Jabotabek

One I saw in the gym at my university in the UK this week gave the last laugh to German speakers. An American girl was wearing a T-shirt (commemorating some zoological expedition or something) which was proudly emblazoned with the acronym "FOTZE" in big letters.

I smiled when I saw it but a group of young German exchange students howled with laughter, to the obvious embarrasment of sweet li'l US girl who was blissfully unaware that the word is a rather impolite term for female nether regions.

khmerhit · Posted: Wed Jan 28, 2004 7:16 pm Post subject:

Eine Frage----Was fur ein Gugelhupf sind Sie, lieber Gugelhupf? Schweizer, Elsassischer, Osterreicher, Deutsch, oder... etwas neue?

gugelhupf · Joined: 24 Jan 2004 Posts: 575 Location: Jabotabek

Mischlingsgugelhupf, mein Freund. Halb Deutsch, halb Brite, aber hundert prozent suess... (Brite keyboard - leider gibts kein umlaut oder SS!)

FGT · Joined: 14 Sep 2003 Posts: 762 Location: Turkey

Wasn't there a rule about only English being used?

Roger · Joined: 19 Jan 2003 Posts: 9138

FGT: Die Regel dass hier nur ENGLISH geschrieben werden darf, macht
ueberhaupt keinen Sinn!
Schliesslich muessen wir auch Halb-ENGLISH verstehen, z.B.:

In Jinghong, Yunnan province, bus station is called STATION STOP.

guty · Joined: 10 Apr 2003 Posts: 365 Location: on holiday

I had a friend in the Czech republic who lived in the town called
"Zastavka"
In Czech that means
"bus stop"
It used to take him ages to buy a ticket, as helpful people would explain that there are zastavkas everywhere

Will. · Joined: 02 May 2003 Posts: 783 Location: London Uk

FGT,
That is English, central european English dialect, aber mit Deutsch accent.
The spelling is not so good Ja forstar inte.
Careful lads, heute general discussion, morgen China forum.

Roger · Joined: 19 Jan 2003 Posts: 9138

At the entrance to the Youth Hostel on the Camellia Hotel premises in Kunming a sing:
"Massage: One clock RMB 38.
One more time: RMB 78

I would rather take 'One clock" for RMB 38 than the same thing all over for RMB 78.

Kurochan · Joined: 01 Mar 2003 Posts: 944 Location: China

On the door of the handicapped toilet stall in Kaifeng:

DEFORMITY MAN

Irish Blood English Heart · Posted: Sat Mar 27, 2004 6:04 pm Post subject:

Theres a car wash centre in Manchester with the words "the best hand job in the north west" emblazed all over it!!

I also had a friend called Ben Wye, everytime someone in authority asked his name they always got angry at his answer!

And a VCD player I bought in Malaysia had these simple terms to fix it should it ever be broken "put it into the gas".

Dont you just love it?