Communication Skills Aficionado Gifts

'Gee, talk about body language!'

'The meaning of communinication is the response we get'

"Don't even interact with him. He just likes to say 'Kalamazoo.'"

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

"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?

Dialogue

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

"Could I ask just one question?"

"Hello? Speaking, not listening."

'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?"

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

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

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

"OK, fine. Perhaps 'sower of discord in the lower depths of hell' was overstating it."

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

She - Interpreter - He.

"Who knew we had so many dislikes in common?"

"I don't actually talk, I just mimic sounds."

With the popularity of spell-checkers, many people are turning to the new speech-checkers.

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

Letter Collecting Nerd

"Help! I'm surrounded by idiots."

'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?"

"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!"

'Let us pray...'

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."

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

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