A Conversation With Room Service In An Asian Hotel
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...
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?"
Guest: "What?"
RS: "Ow July den?...pry,boy, pooch?"
Guest: "Oh, the eggs! How do I like them? Sorry, scrambled please."
RS: "Ow July dee bayhcem...crease?"
Guest: "Crisp will be fine"
RS: "Hokay. An San tos?"
Guest: "What?"
RS: "San tos. July San tos?"
Guest: "I don't think so"
RS: "No? Judo one toes??"
Guest: "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?"
Guest: "English muffin! I've got it! You were saying 'Toast.' Fine.
Yes, an English muffin will be fine."
RS: "We bother?"
Guest: "No...just put the bother on the side."
RS: "Wad?"
Guest: "I mean butter...just put it on the side."
RS: "Copy?"
Guest: "Sorry?"
RS: "Copy...tea...mill?"
Guest: "Yes. Coffee please, and that's all."
RS: "One Minnie. Ass ruin torino fee, strangle ache, crease baychem,
tos sy singlish mopping we bother honey sigh, and copy...rye?"
Guest: "Whatever you say"
RS: "Tendjewberrymud"
Guest: "You're welcome"
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