This one takes some work, but it is really funny! 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" | |
| Hotel guest dials Room Service... and the fun begins! | |
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 toes?" |
Guest: | "What???" |
Room Service: | "San toes. July San toes?" |
Guest: | "Uhh... 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: | "Oh, 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." |
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