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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. |
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| "RUIN SORBEES" | |
| Hotel guest dials Room Service... and the fun begins! | |
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Room Service: |
"Morny. Ruin sorbees" |
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Guest: |
"Sorry, I thought I dialed room-service" |
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Room Service: |
"Rye..Ruin sorbees..morny! Djewish to odor sunteen??" |
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Guest: |
"Uh..yes..I'd like some bacon and eggs" |
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Room Service: |
"Ow July den?" |
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Guest: |
"What??" |
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Room Service: |
"Ow July den?...pry,boy, pooch?" |
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Guest: |
"Oh, the eggs! How do I like them? Sorry, scrambled please." |
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Room Service: |
"Ow July dee bayhcem...crease?" |
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Guest: |
"Crisp will be fine." |
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Room Service: |
"Hokay. An San toes?" |
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Guest: |
"What???" |
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Room Service: |
"San toes. July San toes?" |
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Guest: |
"Uhh... I don't think so" |
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Room Service: |
"No? Judo one toes??" |
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Guest: |
"I feel really bad about this, but I don't know what 'judo one toes' means." |
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Room Service: |
"Toes! toes!...why djew Don Juan toes? Ow bow singlish mopping we bother?" |
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Guest: |
"Oh, English muffin!! I've got it! You were saying 'Toast.' Fine." Yes, an English muffin will be fine." |
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Room Service: |
"We bother?" |
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Guest: |
"No. Just put the bother on the side." |
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Room Service: |
"Wad?" |
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Guest: |
"I mean butter...just put it on the side." |
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Room Service: |
"Copy?" |
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Guest: |
"Sorry???" |
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Room Service: |
"Copy...tea...mill?" |
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Guest: |
"Yes. Coffee please, and that's all." |
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Room Service: |
"One Minnie. Ass ruin torino fee, strangle ache, crease baychem, tossy singlish mopping we bother honey sigh, and copy....rye??" |
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Guest: |
"Whatever you say." |
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Room Service: |
"Tendjewberrymud." |
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Guest: |
"You're welcome." |
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