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Signs and notices 13

These are supposedly actual signs that have appeared at various locations. Sign in a Hong Kong supermarket: „For your convenience, we recommend courteous, efficient self-service.“ Sign at fast-food place: „PARKING FOR DRIVE-THRU CUSTOMERS ONLY!“ Sign outside a Hong Kong tailor shop: „Ladies may have a fit upstairs.“ Sign in a Rhodes tailor shop: „Order your summers suit. Because is big rush we will execute customers in strict rotation.“ Sign from the Soviet Weekly: „There will be a Moscow Exhibition of Aets by 15,000 Soviet Republic painters and sculptors. These were executed over the past two years.“ Sign in an East African newspaper: „A new swimming pool is rapidly taking shape since the contractors have thrown in the bulk of their workers.“ Sign in a Vienna hotel: „In case of fire, do your utmost to alarm the hotel porter.“ Sign in an advertisement by a Hong Kong dentist: „Teeth extracted by the latest Methodists.“

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