Communication Artist Gifts

'It helps him realize I'm being serious.'

"Maybe my argument will make more sense if I run it through some of these sick effects pedals."

"Your marriage would greatly improve if you were both more open with your emojis."

'Quality time, Gloria?'

"Can I borrow the car keys?"

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"You've got to learn about verbs. How else are you going to verbalize your feelings?

'Bob, I know you're a Mockingbird, but a few compliments every now and then would greatly help your marriage...'

The writer: something who devotes a lifetime of solitude to the same of communication.

Couples' therapy

She - Interpreter - He.

Ninedency: A budding tendency

'I'm majoring in communication and minoring in pizza delivery - What about you?'

Direct Marketing...

'The usual ‘nod, nod, wink, wink' will do, Walter. We don't need the eyebrow twitch and nostril flares.'

Twitter censorship

"Hi, you've reached Susan's desk. I am monotasking right now, so I'll call you back it's the phone's turn again. Beep!"

"My dad can't talk yet, but he's learned to wave bye-bye."

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On-the-job creativity may go unrewarded an may even create consternation among co-workers.

Wordplay: Export.

"When we first started seeing each other, we would always use the same word for snow."

WHO checklist

'I sort of thought your presentation was going to be in powerpoint.'

Birds on a wire, "Bernie?...Oh he's gone cable!"

"Abbreviations here, abbreviations there, and one is more incomprehensible than the next!"

They had a tendency to talk past one another.

Antler Buzzers.

'May I suggest a pleasant viognier to put the subtext into gear?'

The Love Psychologists

"Stop squawking. Use your words."

'Being an opera buff, I naturally assumed she said "I'm taking you to the met"!'

'Before we get started, let's go around the table and practice making eye contact.'