Room Service
Posted by Rain on June 04, 1998 at 02:26:58:

Be warned, you're going to find yourself talking "funny" for a while after reading this. It was nominated best email of 1997. This
is a telephonic exchange between a hotel guest and roomservice 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."

RS : "Rye. Ruin sorbees..morny! Djewish to odor sunteen??"
Guest: "Uh..yes..I'd like some bacon and eggs."

RS: "Ow July den?"
G: "What??"

RS: "Ow July den - fry, boy, pooch?"
G: "Oh, the eggs! How do I like them? Sorry, srambled, 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 singlish 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"

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