Be warned, you're going to find yourself talking "funny" for a while after reading this. It was nominated "best email of 1997". 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: "Morny. Ruin sorbees." Guest: "Sorry, I thought I dialled 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? 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 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."