Communication Studies Buff Gifts

"The humans sent these signals out in the seventies. You think they're going to buy 'Sorry, just seeing this now!"

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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...'

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

She - Interpreter - He.

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

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

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

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?"

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"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!"

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

'Let us pray...'

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

Birds on a wire, "Bernie?...Oh he's gone cable!"

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

The Love Psychologists

They had a tendency to talk past one another.

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

"Stop squawking. Use your words."

'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.'

'No need to text me the answer to that. I'm right here.'

Technological advances within the office.

Relationship Issues.

The Horn of Unanswered Email