"Tenjewberrymuds"

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To get the full effect, this message should be read out loud. Try not laughing while you do it! You will understand what 'tenjewberrymuds' means by the end of the conversation. This has been nominated for the best email of 2005.

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): "Morrin. Roon sirbees."

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

RS: "Rye..Roon sirbees..morrin! Jewish to oddor

sunteen??"

G: "Uh..yes..I'd like some bacon and eggs."

RS: "Ow July den?"

G: "What??"

RS: "Ow July den?...pryed, boyud, poochd?"

G: "Oh, the eggs! How do I like them? Sorry,

sram

bled please."

RS: "Ow July dee baykem? Crease?"

G: "Crisp will be fine."

RS: "Hokay. An Sahn toes?"

G: "What?"

RS: "An toes. July Sahn toes?"

G: "I don't think so."

RS: "No? Judo wan sahn toes??"

G: "I feel really bad about this, but I don't know

what 'judo wan sahn toes' means."

RS: "Toes! toes!...Why jew don juan toes? Ow bow

Anglish moppin we bbodder?"

G: "English muffin!! I've got it! You were saying

'Toast.' Fine. Yes, an English muffin will be fine."

RS: "We bodder?"

G: "No...just put the bodder on the side."

RS: "Wad?"

G: "I mean butter...just put it on the side."

RS: "Copy?"

G: "Excuse me?"

RS: "Copy...tea...meel?"

G: "Yes. Coffee, please, and that's all."

RS: "One Minnie. Scramah egg, crease baykem, Anglish

moppin we bodder on sigh and copy....rye??"

G: "Whatever you say."

RS: "Tenjewberrymuds."

G: "You're very welcome.

[LynnDel]

I stopped in a Chinese buffet in Elko, NV, on my way home from Colorado last week. It was clean and manned by two very active young men who anticipated our every need. The minute I stepped in the door, before even sitting down, one asked, "Some see t'dree?"

"Pardon me?"

"Some see t'dree?" Not understanding what he said was frustrating to me, since I pride myself on understanding many accents.

It took too more repetitions before I realized, with outside help, that he was saying, "Something to drink?"

LD

[Naomi]

SMAN ... Priceless ...Tenjewberrymuds ... laughed until I cried. I try to understand accents but sometimes it just becomes too much

.

Naomi

[Jeannieb43]

ROFLOL !!

That's hilarious.

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