Communication Connoisseurs Gifts

"This active listening workshop sounds useful..." "Why would I want to go to Worksop?"

The End of the Worker Bees

'Of course you can't understand a word he says, he's the station tannoy announcer.'

"Mrs. Porterhouse and her pianist have agreed to disagree."

'Well, you complained that you wanted the newspaper porched.'

"Yeah, I see the outgoing calls, but what about the introverted ones?"

'Without my speech writer I'm worried I may say what I mean.'

Smoker empties tobacco from pipe, then empties words from phone.

'Language is a great invention, but what if it leads to hate speech?'

Miracles of Modern Technology #12: Transport & Communications

'Talking to you is futile. I'm beginning to regret I ever escaped from the primate speech institute.'

"I don't think he has anymore shelf space left in his head"

"I think the lines down!"

Campaign for Plain English

'The meaning of communinication is the response we get'

This Message Has No Content

"I can't decide if we're good people who are bad at communicating, or monsters who communicate perfectly."

'What we've got here is a failure to communicate.'

"And do you, Deborah Tannen, think they know what they're talking about?"

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

"I don't believe I've missed a single sign since you made the switch to Power Point."

"Hello? Speaking, not listening."

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

Dialogue

"I love it when you use your 'All Things Considered' voice."

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

'I solved the problem of dead zones on my cell phone with a personal satellite,'

She - Interpreter - He.

With the popularity of spell-checkers, many people are turning to the new speech-checkers.

Men gossiping

'Why don't you try seeing it from your point of view?'

Ruddy bloggers!

"Help! I'm surrounded by idiots."

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

"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!"