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'How can I think without words?'

'Jeremy, why can't we talk instead of you bottling things up all the time?'

'No, I mean, what's a 'letter'?'

'Dad's cell-phone!! I'm going to call the moon!!'

'I don't mind taling during sex, but must you chat on-line?'

"Bikes! I said bikes! Hello? Hello? Dang! My battery's dead!"

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

"Hello? Speaking, not listening."

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

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

"Just one more site!" "I'm totally, like, in control!" "I can quit anytime I feel like it..."

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

She - Interpreter - He.

Ruddy bloggers!

"Everything you say (or don't say) matters. Choose your words and intentions carefully."

Baby Screen Time

'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!"

When at a loss for words Colin would often resort to communicating through the medium of contemporary dance.

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

'Yeah, but if it's NOT a mirage, maybe we can find Mapquest on it!'

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

"Men can keep a secret, but it takes a woman to tell them that it was supposed to be a secret!"

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

'You know, you can do this all online now.'

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

They had a tendency to talk past one another.

The Love Psychologists

"Stop squawking. Use your words."

"This is NOT what I meant when I said you kids could have more screen time."

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

'I was just ringing to see if you'd got the email about my letter.'

'No, there's nothing on my mind, but if there was I don't want to talk about it.'