Room Service: "Morny. Ruin sorbees"

Guest : "Sorry, I thought I dialled room-service"

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

G : "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"

No jokes? Oh come on, Steve, whats a little levity amongst friends?

The "pistol shooting" and the "lifting" really suprised me. I was under the impression that China had exported all its lead, cleverly disguised as children's toys.

What is with the duct tape over the "speedo" trademark on the Chinese girls swimwear?

Critics, however, carp that Mr. Ban's apparent willingness to overlook North Korea's human-rights abuses in the interests of diplomacy -- a reflection of his government's ambiguous approach -- suggests he is willing to sacrifice principle in the name of compromise. Nevertheless, that purposeful, low-profile approach has endeared him to the United States, not to mention China. That is one reason why several other leading Asian candidates for the UN job found it expedient to withdraw.

I realize that there are a lot of players behind the scenes and those who walked out on stage (list below) are symbolic of clusters of other people and thinkers -- though every time I see Robert Rubin and Lawrence Summers in the same group, it reminds me of the UK and France on the P-5 at the UN Security Council. Do we really need two European members in the same permanent body? Do we really need both Rubin and Summers at every meeting with press availability?

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