If you read this out loud, it is even funnier.....

Be warned, you're going to find yourself talking "funny" for a while after reading this. It was nominated "best email of 1997." A Telephonic (is this a real word...I hate this word) 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?"

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?"

"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."