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"