Communication Engineer Pillows

Desert Island Castaway sends an SOS with a Laptop Computer.

"Remember the golden rule: more buzzwords, less real words."

"Peter's Joint Head of Communications."

Hey, calm down --- Now, what did you say again?

"And isn't it time we replaced the worn-out, meaningless cliches in our mission statement with some dazzlingly new meaningless cliches?"

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

"And now here's Cathie with the hypothetical portion of the news."

"Damn - another letter to the editor."

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

Dialogue

"Nope, I still only have one bar."

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

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

"Hello? Speaking, not listening."

'Complete sentences?? Jeez, how verbose can you get?'

Changing Minds

She - Interpreter - He.

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

"What's going on Jen? Why didn't you respond to my kissing emoji?"

'In my time, we didn't talk to a blackberry. We just ate the damn things!'

"....So called 'fake news' is dangerous to our democracy!"

"We live in the golden age of fake news, alternative facts and spin control. Your resume is too truthful."

"I was going to have my people call his people, but I’m pretty sure his people have Caller I.D."

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

Information...political rhetoric

'I want to discuss communication clarity.'

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!"

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

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

It's not a bad planet -- Their talk shows make it seem a lot worse than it is.

"Twitter is back! Hurry, hurry, get yer free speech here!"

"'Grim Reapers' was considered too offensive, these days we're known as 'afterlife facilitators.'"

"Well, after ad school, our Timothy made a 6-second Ad that nobody saw."