Badly Worded Signs
Sign in a laundromat:
Automatic washing machines: please remove all your clothes when
the light goes out
In a dress shop window:
Don't stand outside and faint - come in and have a fit
Sign in a London department store:
Bargain basement upstairs
On a church door:
'This is the gate of Heaven. Enter Ye all by this door.'
(This door is kept locked because of the draught.
Please use side door.)
Outside a secondhand shop:
We exchange anything - bicycles, washing machines etc. Why not
bring your wife along and get a wonderful bargain?
In a restaurant:
Customers who find our waiting staff rude should see the manager
Seen outside a travel agency:
Why don't you go away?
Spotted in a garden centre:
Up these steps for the sunken garden
Notice in the window of a fabric shop:
Repairs and alterations done here. Dying arranged
Sign outside pet shop:
No dogs allowed
Message on a leaflet:
If you cannot read, this leaflet will tell you how to get lessons
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clipped from paul.merton.ox.ac.uk
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