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kembali merunduk pada bumi

January 14, 2006

pagi ini, ketika matahari mulai merenggang… alunan sms membangunkan…

dari [bubun].

Achyar Abbas Ibrahim [Oom Abbas Website] meninggal tadi pagi pukul 06.00 di rumahnya karena sakit jantung. Jenazah sekarang ada di rumah ibunya, Jl. Cikajang no. 8 Kebayoran Baru.

sender:
bunteL!
+62852181xxxxx

sent:
08:25:19
14.01.2006

terbangun dan berbisik

selamat jalan, oom abbas… damailah di sana.

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tenjewberrymuds

January 6, 2006

To get the full effect, this should be read aloud. 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, scrambled 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 juantoes? Ow bow Anglish moppin we bodder?”
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, creasebaykem, Anglish moppin we bodder on sigh and copy….rye??”
G: “Whatever you say.”
RS: “Tenjewberrymuds.”
G : “You’re very welcome.”