This e-mail was nominated "best 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...
Room Service: Morny. Ruin sorbees.
Guest: Sorry, I thought I dialled room service.
RS: Rye... Ruin sorbees... morny! Jewish to oder 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 santos?
G: What??
RS: Santos, July Santos?
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 jew Don Juan toes? Ow bow singlish mopping we
bother?
G: English muffin!... Yes, that 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.
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