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JOKES

Sent in by Ken Wilson

1.
Make love, not war.
-Hell, do both
GET MARRIED!
Women's restroom
The Filling Station, Bozeman , MT

2.
At the feast of ego
Everyone leaves hungry
Bentley's House of Coffee and Tea, Tucson , AZ

3.
It's hard to make a comeback
When you haven't been anywhere
Written in the dust on the back of a bus,
Wickenburg , AZ

4.
Fighting for peace is like screwing for virginity
The Bayou, Baton Rouge , LO

5.
If pro is opposite of con,then what is the opposite of progress?
Congress!
Men's restroom House of Representatives,
Washington , DC

6.
Express Lane:
Five beers or less
Sign over one of the urinals
Ed Debevic's, Phoenix , AZ

7.
You're too good for him
Sign over mirror in Women's restroom
Ed Debevic's, Beverly Hills ,CA

8.
No wonder you always go home alone
Sign over mirror in Men's restroom,
Ed Debevic's, Beverly Hills ,CA

9.
A woman has the last word in any argument.
Anything a man says after that is the beginning of a new argument. Long graffito at Hank's Bar, Boston Mass

10.
Old aunts used to come up to me at weddings. They would start cackling and poking me in the ribs and say: "You're next!"

They stopped after I started doing the same thing to them at funerals.

11.
These are - allegedly - genuine signs ....

In a cocktail lounge in Norway:
LADIES ARE REQUESTED NOT TO HAVE CHILDREN IN THE BAR.

In a doctor's office in Rome:
SPECIALIST IN WOMEN AND OTHER DISEASES.

In a Dry cleaners in Bangkok:
DROP YOUR TROUSERS HERE FOR THE BEST RESULTS.

In a Nairobi, Kenya, restaurant:
CUSTOMERS WHO FIND OUR WAITRESSES RUDE SHOULD SEE THE MANAGER!

On a poster in Kenya:
ARE YOU AN ADULT WHO CANNOT READ? IF SO, WE CAN HELP.

On an Athi River highway: the main road from Nairobi to Mombasa.
TAKE NOTICE: WHEN THIS SIGN IS UNDER WATER, THIS ROAD IS IMPASSABLE.

In a London restaurant:
OPEN SEVEN DAYS A WEEK AND WEEKENDS.

In a cemetery in Manchester:
PERSONS ARE PROHIBITED FROM PICKING FLOWERS FROM ANY BUT THEIR OWN GRAVES.

From a Tokyo hotel list of rules:
GUESTS ARE REQUESTED NOT TO SMOKE OR DO OTHER DISGUSTING BEHAVIOURS IN BED.

In the lobby of a Moscow hotel across the road from a Russian Orthodox monastery:
YOU ARE WELCOME TO VISIT THE CEMETERY WHERE FAMOUS RUSSIAN AND SOVIET COMPOSERS, ARTISTS AND WRITERS ARE BURIED DAILY EXCEPT THURSDAY.

A sign posted in Germany's Black Forest:
IT IS STRICTLY FORBIDDEN ON OUR BLACK FOREST CAMPING SITE THAT PEOPLE OF DIFFERENT SEX, FOR INSTANCE, MEN AND WOMEN, LIVE TOGETHER IN ONE TENT UNLESS THEY ARE MARRIED WITH EACH OTHER FOR THIS PURPOSE.

In a hotel in Zurich:
BECAUSE OF THE IMPROPRIETY OF ENTERTAINING GUESTS OF THE OPPOSITE SEX IN THE BEDROOM, IT IS SUGGESTED THAT THE LOBBY BE USED FOR THIS PURPOSE.

Advertisement for donkey rides, Thailand:
WOULD YOU LIKE TO RIDE ON YOUR OWN ASS?

On the box of a clockwork toy made in Hong Kong:
GUARANTEED TO WORK THROUGHOUT ITS USEFUL LIFE.

In a Swiss mountain inn:
SPECIAL TODAY - NO ICE-CREAM.

In an airline office, Copenhagen Denmark:
WE TAKE YOUR BAGS AND SEND THEM IN ALL DIRECTIONS.

In a Bangkok temple:
IT IS FORBIDDEN TO ENTER A WOMAN, EVEN A FOREIGNER, IF DRESSED AS A MAN.

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