(plagiarized from a story in the Far East Economic Review, published many years ago.)
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... a telephone exchange between me and room-service at a hotel in Asia.
Room Service (RS): "Morny. Ruin sorbees"
Clare (cd): "Sorry, I thought I dialed Room Service"
RS: "Rye...ruin sorbees...morny! Jewish to odor sunteen?"
cd: "Uh...yes. This is Clare Dunn in room 2903. I'd like to order some bacon and eggs."
RS: "Ow July den?"
cd: "Excuse me?"
RS: "Ow July den? Pry, boy, pooch?"
cd "Oh, the eggs! How do I like them? Scrambled, please."
RS: "Ow July dee baychem...crease?"
cd: "Crisp will be fine."
RS: "Hokay. Santos?"
cd: "What?"
RS: "Toes. July santos?"
cd: "I don't think so..."
RS: "No? Judo Juan toes?"
cd: "I feel really bad about this, but I don't know what 'Judo Juan toes' means."
RS: "Toes! Toes! Why jew Don Juan toes? Ow bow Singlish mopping?"
cd: "English muffin! I've got it! You were saying 'Toast'! Yes, toast is what I want".
RS: "Hokay, toes. Why, we, are racin'?"
cd: "HUH???"
RS: "Why, we, are racin' toes?"
cd: "OH!! Wheat! No, sorry, make it Raisin, please."
RS: "We bother?"
cd: (I'm getting it, now...) "If it's no bother..." (heehee)
RS, "Hokay, racin' toes, no bother."
cd: "No, No! We bother!"
RS: "Wad?"
cd: "I mean butter...just put it on the side."
RS: "Copy?"
cd: "Yes, I'm getting it now..."
RS: "No! Jew Juan Copy?...tea?...mill?"
cd: "Ah...Yes. Coffee please, and that's all."
RS: "Hokay, Juan Minnie...Ass Ruin too-rine-o-free, strangle ache, crease baychem, Racin' toes we bother sigh, and copy...rye?"
cd: "Whatever you say."
RS: Tenjewberrymud!"
cd: "You're Welcome."
This is the FUNNIEST thing I've read all week. Strangle ache! Racin' toes. I can't stop snorting. Tenjewberrymud forda raff.
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xoxoxo, cd