A Trip in the East
> > > >
> > > > Be warned, you are going to find yourself talking "funny" for a
> while after reading this.
> > > > It was nominated the "best email of 1997". The following is 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"
> > > > ROOM SERVICE: "Rye..Ruin sorbees..morny! Djewish to odor sunteen??"
> > > > GUEST: "Uh..yes...I'd like some bacon and eggs"
> > > > ROOM SERVICE: "How july den?"
> > > > GUEST: "What?"
> > > > ROOM SERVICE: "How july den?....pry, boy, pooch?"
> > > > GUEST: "Oh the eggs! How do I like them? Sorry, Scrambled please."
> > > > ROOM SERVICE: "Ow july dee bayhcem...crease?"
> > > > GUEST: "Crisp will be fine."
> > > > ROOM SERVICE: "Hokay. An san tos?"
> > > > GUEST: "What?"
> > > > ROOM SERVICE: "San tos. July san tos?"
> > > > GUEST: "I don't think so"
> > > > ROOM SERVICE: "Judo one toes??"
> > > > GUEST: "I feel really bad about this, but I don't know what 'judo
> one toes' means."
> > > > ROOM SERVICE: "Toes! toes!..why djew don juan toes? Ow bow
> singlish moppin we bother?"
> > > > GUEST: "English Muffin! I've got it! You are saying 'Toast.' Fine.
> Yes , an english muffin will be fine."
> > > > ROOM SERVICE: "We bother?"
> > > > GUEST: "No..just put the bother on the side."
> > > > ROOM SERVICE: "Wad?"
> > > > GUEST: "I mean butter... just put it on the side."
> > > > ROOM SERVICE: "Copy?"
> > > > GUEST: "Sorry?"
> > > > ROOM SERVICE: "Copy...tea...mill?"
> > > > GUEST: "Yes, coffee please, and that's all."
> > > > ROOM SERVICE: "One Minnie. Ass ruin torino fee, strangle ache,
> crease bayhcem, tossy singlish mopping we bother honey sigh, and copy...
> rye??"
> > > > GUEST: "Whatever you say"
> > > > ROOM SERVICE: "Tenjuberrymud"
> > > > GUEST: "You are welcome"
> > > >
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