This was nominated best email of 1997. A telephonic exchange
between a hotel guest and roomservice, 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"

Room Service:  "Rye..Ruin sorbees..morny! Djewish to odor sunteen??"

Guest:  "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?"

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"