Communication Nerds Gifts

'My ring-tone's inaudible to humans.'

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"I can't decide if we're good people who are bad at communicating, or monsters who communicate perfectly."

"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...'

Dialogue

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

WiFi Signals

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

"They want to put up a new cell tower in our neighbourhood?! We don't need more of those radio emission eyesores here! I'm gonna complain... ...as soon as I have better signal strength."

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

She - Interpreter - He.

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

"I love it when you use your 'All Things Considered' voice."

Letter Collecting Nerd

'Why don't you try seeing it from your point of view?'

Ruddy bloggers!

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

'I hope you ain't got no tax up here!'

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

"It probably got lost in the voice mail."

"Oh! It's you! I was expecting the machine."

"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

"I feel like I don’t even know my own husband ... and it’s driving me wild!"

'Let us pray...'

"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.

'Your wife says you act like a fool. I thought you said she never pays attention to you.'