Brief Chat Enthusiast Gifts

'How are this morning, briefly?'

Woman on the phone.

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"My wife and I handle our own finances. I'm an accountant and she's a grief counselor."

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'Who's a pretty boy! Is that all you've got to say?'

Sure, he can talk already, but it's all just psychobabble.

"But I haven't finished explaining about dollar-cost-averaging." "Sorry, I didn't register for this course."

'Thanks to his brilliant conversation techniques, Bob had the shortest calls.'

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"You had too many characters in your last tweet."

Two men jogging past one another trying to get as many words in as possible.

"Let's just do the top layer."

the Morning Joe team.

"Both the movie and I will be released this summer."

"Please try not to offer expert analysis."

'Women, can't live with 'em, can't live without em.'

'I've turned another corner in my life.' 'One more corner and you'll be back where you started.'

'As a teleworker Colin sometimes struggled against feelings of isolation.'

"It's just a dinner table conversation. Must you refer to it as 'Talking Off-line'."

'Life! Give my conversation liiiife!'

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"I was just talking to Charlie Rose in my head."

"I grew up in St Louis and went to school in New Jersey and have been in Brooklyn ever-since, but sure, I guess technically I'm 'from' the Black Lagoon."

'I just got off the phone with my long-time writing partner who's bringing over my deathbed confessional masterpiece. In the meantime, who's up for some idle chit-chat? How about all this rain we've been getting, huh?!"

'Hello! I don't believe I've bored you yet...'

"He's surprisingly good at small talk."

"The Over-Sharing Economy"

I was telling him a story of my granddaughter's wedding.

'No appointments are available for the next three months, but you can always call in to the doctor's talk show.'

Felix decides right then to stop sugar-coating his words.

'Fred is a social conservative -- he believes in slow food and heavy beer.'

Bob searched far and wide for his soul mate. It looked promising, aside from the language barrier and shipping costs.

"I look at a man's hands. If he has long fingers it usually means he has long toes."

"You're not holding up your end of the conversation."