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Telephone  exchange between a hotel guest and room-service, at the Peninsula Hotel in Hong Kong which was recorded and published  in the Far East  Economic Review _________________________ 
ROOM SERVICE: "Morny.  Ruin sorbees"
GUEST:  "Sorry, I thought I dialed room-service."
ROOM SERVICE:  "Rye . . Ruin sorbees . . morny!  Djewish to odor sunteen?" GUEST:  "Uh . . yes . . I'd like some bacon and eggs"
ROOM SERVICE:  "Ow July den?"
GUEST:  "What??"
ROOM SERVICE:  "Ow July den? . . . pry, boy, pooch?"
GUEST:  "Oh, the eggs!  How do I like them?  Sorry, scrambled please."
ROOM SERVICE:  "Ow July dee bayhcem . . . crease?"
GUEST:  "Crisp will be fine."
ROOM SERVICE:  "Hokay.  An San tos?"
GUEST:  "What?"
ROOM SERVICE:  "San tos.  July San tos?"
GUEST:  "I don't think so."
ROOM SERVICE:  "No?  Judo one toes??"
GUEST:  "I feel really bad about this, but I don't know what 'judo one toes' means." 
 ROOM SERVICE:  "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."
ROOM SERVICE:  "We bother?"
GUEST:  "No . . just put the bother on the side."
ROOM SERVICE:  "Wad?"
GUEST:  "I mean butter . . . just put it on the side."
ROOM SERVICE:  "Copy?"
GUEST:  "Sorry?"
ROOM SERVICE:  "Copy . . . tea . . . mill?"
GUEST:  "Yes . . . Coffee please, and that's all."
ROOM SERVICE:  "One Minnie.  Ass ruin torino fee, strangle ache, crease baychem, tossy singlish mopping we bother honey sigh, and copy . . .         rye??"
GUEST:  "Whatever you say."
ROOM SERVICE:  "Tendjewberrymud."
GUEST:  "You're welcome"