Communication Historians Mugs

"Can you hold for a second? I have Can Waiting."

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"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."

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

"Hello? Speaking, not listening."

She - Interpreter - He.

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

Ruddy bloggers!

'The sole reason I haven't talked to my wife for five years, is that I was too polite to interrupt her...'

'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!"

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

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

"I like it but does it get only the one channel?"

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

The Love Psychologists

They had a tendency to talk past one another.

Presentation Skills: 1. Be Prepared.

"Stop squawking. Use your words."

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

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

'I said, how do you like my new communication tool?'

'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.'

Technological advances within the office.

Relationship Issues.

"I've never seen a resume that's entirely made up of emojis. Let me take a few moments to decode it."

'We had seven gloriously happy years together, and then he learned how to talk.'

"We don't talk."

'He says he needs his own space.'

"Go ask your mother ... and I'll tell you why she's wrong."