Be warned, you're going to find
yourself talking "funny" for a while after reading this. It was nominated
"best email of 1997". A telephone exchange between
a hotel guest and room-service, at a hotel in Asia, which was
recorded and published in the Far East Economic Review.
Room
Service: "Morny. Ruin sorbees"
....Guest
: "Sorry, I thought I dialed room-service"
... "Rye..Ruin
sorbees..morny! Djewish to oder sunteen??"
...
"Uh..yes..I'd like some bacon and eggs"
"Ow July den?"
...
"What??"
..."Ow
July den?...pry,boy,pooch?"
...
"Oh, the eggs! How do I like them?
Sorry, scrambled please."
..."Ow
July dee bayhcem...crease?"
...
"Crisp will be fine"
"Hokay.
An San tos?"
..."What?"
..."San
tos. July San tos?"
...
"I don't think so"
...
"No? Judo one toes??"
...
"I feel really bad about this, but I don't know what 'judo one toes' means."
...
"Toes! toes!...why djew Don Juan toes? Ow bow singlish mopping we bother?"
...
"English muffin!! I've got it! You were saying 'Toast.' Fine. "No..just put the bother on the side."
...
"Wad?"
...
"I mean butter...just put it on the side."
...
"Copy?"
...
"Sorry?"
..."Copy...tea...mill?"
..."Yes.
Coffee please, and that's all."
...
"One
Minnie. Ass ruin torino fee, strangle ache, crease baychem, tossy singlish mopping we
bother honey sigh, and copy....rye??"