Communications Nerd Gifts

If conversations were like email.

'The wheel was great, but what have you done for me lately?'

The Computer Bore

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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...'

She - Interpreter - He.

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

WiFi Signals

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

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

"The low-res JPEG of Dorian Gray"

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

Ruddy bloggers!

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?"

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.

Robot Grabber Arcade Game Machine

"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."

"Sorry it's late. I got caught in Spring migration."

They had a tendency to talk past one another.

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

The Love Psychologists