Communication Nerd Gifts

Two penguins gesture at each other

Psychiatric patient tries to explain that people won't let him finish speaking.

'Yes, I'm coaching this workshop. Come in, you stupid idiot!'

'Tell me again about the old days when you controlled the flow of information...before the internet.'

'Can you hear me now?' - Life Evolves Onto Land.

"There's no need to shout!"

Ear specialist uses sign to communicate with hearing impaired patient.

'and I'm like LOL, and she's like WTF?!'

'Here it is, Your cellphone.'

Marriage Guidance

History's first recorded instance of butt-dialing

"I'm looking for a man who has an unwavering character, except when he's talking to me."

Messenger Pigeons

The Computer Bore

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

"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."

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

"The low-res JPEG of Dorian Gray"

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

WiFi Signals

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

She - Interpreter - He.

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

Letter Collecting Nerd

Ruddy bloggers!

'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!"

Twitter censorship

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