ROOM SERVICE

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.....

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: "Ow July den?"

Guest : "What??"

Room Service: "Ow 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: "No? 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 mopping we bother?"

Guest : "English muffin!! I've got it! You were 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 baychem, tossy singlish mopping we bother honey sigh, and copy....rye??"

Guest : "Whatever you say"

Room Service: "Tendjewberrymud"

Guest : "You're welcome"