>From: Jabou Joh <[log in to unmask]> >Reply-To: The Gambia and related-issues mailing list <[log in to unmask]> >To: [log in to unmask] >Subject: Fwd: Funny >Date: Wed, 12 Mar 2003 20:32:52 EST > >Here are some signs that you won't find anywhere else in the world except >in AFRICA . > > In a restaurant in Zambia: > "Open seven days a week and weekends." > > On the grounds of a private school in South Africa: > "No trespassing without permission." > > On a window of a Nigerian shop: > "Why go elsewhere to be cheated when you can come here?." > > On a poster in Ghana: > "Are you an adult who cannot read? If so, we can help." > > In a hotel in Mozambique: > "Visitors are expected to complain at the office between the hours of > 9.00 am and 11.00am daily." > > On a river in the Democratic Republic of Congo: > "Take note: When this sign is submerged, the river is impassable." > > In a Zimbabwean restaurant: > "Customers who find our waitresses rude ought to see the manager." > > A sign seen on a hand dryer in a Lesotho public toilet: > "Risk of electric shock-Do not activate with wet hands." > > In a Botswana jewellery shop: > "Ears pierced while you wait." > > On one of the buildings of a Sierra Leone hospital: > "Mental Health Prevention Centre." > > In a maternity ward of a clinic in Tanzania: > "No children allowed!" > >In a cemetery in Uganda: > "Persons are prohibited from picking flowers from any but their own > graves. > > In a Malawi hotel: > "It is forbidden to steal towels please. If you are not a person to do > such a thing, please don't read this notice." > > A sign posted in an Algerian tourist camping park: > "It is strictly forbidden on our camping site that people of different > sex, for instance a man and woman, live together in one tent unless >they are married to each other for that purpose." > > In a Namibian nightclub: > "Ladies are not allowed to have children in the bar." > >~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ >To Search in the Gambia-L archives, go to: http://maelstrom.stjohns.edu/CGI/wa.exe?S1=gambia-l >To contact the List Management, please send an e-mail to: >[log in to unmask] > >To unsubscribe/subscribe or view archives of postings, go to the Gambia-L Web interface >at: http://maelstrom.stjohns.edu/archives/gambia-l.html > >~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~