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