Communication Curious Mugs

'Remember when we had to go into a sound-proof telephone box to make a public phone call?'

'Maybe we should talk to him more, Malcolm.'

'And just why would we need caller I.D.?'

'It's your wife - firing off another text message!'

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

"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...'

Dialogue

"Hello? Speaking, not listening."

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

'The World will speak hip-hop tomorrow.'

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

She - Interpreter - He.

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

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

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

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!"

"It probably got lost in the voice mail."

"Oh! It's you! I was expecting the machine."

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

"I feel like I don’t even know my own husband ... and it’s driving me wild!"

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

'Your wife says you act like a fool. I thought you said she never pays attention to you.'

My wife's been talking to the skin I shed for over an hour.

"Miss Duxbury, put me through to someone."

Harvey went to the kitchen to top up his gin and tonic. When he came back, things took an unexpected turn.

They had a tendency to talk past one another.

Bill was so determined to Twitter no one dared tell him he couldn't do it with a calculator.

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