Communication Skills Aficionado Pillows

'Gee, talk about body language!'

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

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

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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...'

Dialogue

"Could I ask just one question?"

"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?'

She - Interpreter - He.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Letter Collecting Nerd

'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?"

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

"It probably got lost in the voice mail."

"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."

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

'Let us pray...'

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