Communications Geek Pillows

"It's from my attorney."

'I'll meet you down by the working animals.'

Campaign for Plain English

"National security adviser"

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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.

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

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

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

"We live in the golden age of fake news, alternative facts and spin control. Your resume is too truthful."

Ruddy bloggers!

Letter Collecting Nerd

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

'He bowed lower for me than for you.'

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

Twitter censorship

"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."

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

"And if all else fails, wave your arms frantically."

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

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."

The Love Psychologists