Meant to be read aloud (for the full effect). It's amazing, you will understand what 'Tendjewberry
mud' means by the end of the conversation. This has been nominated for the best email of 1999. The
following is 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 (RS): "Morny. Ruin sorbees"
Guest (G): 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?... 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 inglish 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."