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Room Service

Be warned - you are going to find yourself talking "funny" for a while after reading this. It was nominated "best email of 1997". It is 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 dialed room-service"
Room Service: "Rye, Ruin Sorbees. Morny!! Djewish to odor sunteen??"
Guest: "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: "Hokey, 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: "Tenjewberrymud"
G: "You're welcome"