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'Sorry, Steve, I'm expecting an urgent call. I have to answer that.'

'It's the same thing every day, Mother. The first thing he does when he gets home is check his peemail.'

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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...'

"Can you tell the oak tree to tell the birch tree to tell the elm tree I said hi?"

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

'Some of these trees have been here for 2000 years... and they still can't talk. Man, we're awesome!'

'No, I'm the marriage counselor. What you need is the semantics counselor down the hall.'

She - Interpreter - He.

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

"'Original' to 'Carbon-Paper': Do you copy?"

"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!"

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'Let us pray...'

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

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

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

'We finally learned to communicate, and he's worse than I thought he was!

They had a tendency to talk past one another.

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"Stop squawking. Use your words."

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

'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.'