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Inglish Spocken Hier: some mangled translations
Sign on a cathedral in Spain:
It is forbidden to enter a woman, even a foreigner if
dressed as a man.
Above the enterance to a Cairo bar:
Unaccompanied ladies not admitted unless with husband
or similar.
On a Bucharest elevator:
The lift is being fixed for the next days.
During that time we regret that you will be unbearable.
-- Colin Bowles
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| Linux Ethnic: 63 of 161 |
Inglish Spocken Hier: some mangled translations
Various signs in Poland:
Right turn toward immediate outside.
Go soothingly in the snow, as there lurk the ski demons.
Five o'clock tea at all hours.
In a men's washroom in Sidney:
Shake excess water from hands, push button to start,
rub hands rapidly under air outlet and wipe hands
on front of shirt.
-- Colin Bowles, San Francisco Chronicle
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| Linux Ethnic: 64 of 161 |
Iowans ask why Minnesotans don't drink more Kool-Aid. That's because
they can't figure out how to get two quarts of water into one of those
little paper envelopes.
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| Linux Ethnic: 65 of 161 |
Isn't it nice that people who prefer Los Angeles to San Francisco live there?
-- Herb Caen
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| Linux Ethnic: 66 of 161 |
It's hard to argue that God hated Oklahoma. If He didn't, why is it so
close to Texas?
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| Linux Ethnic: 67 of 161 |
It's not Camelot, but it's not Cleveland, either.
-- Kevin White, Mayor of Boston
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| Linux Ethnic: 68 of 161 |
It's not enough to be Hungarian; you must have talent too.
-- Alexander Korda
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| Linux Ethnic: 69 of 161 |
It's odd, and a little unsettling, to reflect upon the fact that
English is the only major language in which "I" is capitalized; in many
other languages "You" is capitalized and the "i" is lower case.
-- Sydney J. Harris
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| Linux Ethnic: 70 of 161 |
It's really quite a simple choice: Life, Death, or Los Angeles.
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| Linux Ethnic: 71 of 161 |
Learning French is trivial: the word for horse is cheval, and everything else
follows in the same way.
-- Alan J. Perlis
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