The following was nominated for "best e-mail of 1997" on the Internet.
It's 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: "Morny. Ruin sorbees."

Guest: "Sorry, I thought I dialed room-service."

Room Service: "Rye..Ruin sorbees..morny! Djoowish to order
                             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. As 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."