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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 room service at a hotel in
Asia which was recorded and published in the Far East
Economic Review:
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> Room Service (RS): "Morny. Ruin sorbees."
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> Guest (G): "Sorry, I thought I dialed room-service."
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> RS: "Rye.
Ruin sorbees. Morny!
Jewish to odor sunteen??"
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> G: "Uh, yes, I'd like some bacon and eggs."
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> RS: "Ow July den?"
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> G: "What??"
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> RS: "Ow July den - fry, boy,
pooch?"
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> G: "Oh, the eggs! How do I like them? Sorry, scrambled,
please."
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> RS: "Ow July dee
baychem - crease?"
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> G: "Crisp will be fine"
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> RS: "Hokay. An
San toes?"
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> G: "What?"
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> RS: "San toes. July San toes?"
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> G: "I don't think so"
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> RS: "No? Judo one toes??"
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> G: "I feel really bad about this, but I don't know what 'judo one
toes'
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means."
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> RS: "Toes! Toes! Why jew Don Juan toes?
Ow bow singlish mopping
we
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bother?"
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> G: "English muffin!! I've got it! You were saying 'Toast.' Fine.
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Yes, an English
muffin will be fine."
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> RS: "We bother?"
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> G: "No, just put the bother on the side."
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> RS: "Wad?"
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> G: "I mean butter - just put it on the side."
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> RS: "Copy?"
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> G: "Sorry?"
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> RS: "Copy...tea...mill?"
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> G: "Yes. Coffee please, and that's all."
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> RS: "One Minnie. Ass ruin torino fee,
strangle ache, crease baychem,
> tossy singlish mopping we
bother honey sigh, and copy....rye??"
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> G: "Whatever you say."
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> RS: "Tendjewberrymud"
>
> G: "You're welcome"
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