ROOM SERVICE

This will be more fun when you read it out loud!

This has been nominated for best email of 1999. 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 (RS): "Morny. Ruin sorbees."
Guest (G): "Sorry, I thought I dialed room-service"

RS: "Rye...Ruin sorbees... morny! Djewish to odor sunteen??"
G: "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 : "Hokay. 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 inglish 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: "Tendjewberrymud"
G : "You're welcome"