Ordering Breakfast at the Koreana Hotel, downtown Seoul.
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 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??"
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 the m? 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"