Connection Enthusiast Mugs

'I don't understand. You've wasted the whole interview going on and on about what you know... I think you'd better start telling me who you know.'

'...and we believe everyone is connected by only 7,412 degrees of separation.'

"It's the school run."

"I consider every member of our family to be like family."

"To get to the next level, click 'I do.'"

'Male and Female He created them.'

'I know there are a lot of Smiths about but is there a teeny-weeny chance we could be related?'

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'What we've got here is a failure to communicate.'

"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...'

"They want to put up a new cell tower in our neighbourhood?! We don't need more of those radio emission eyesores here! I'm gonna complain... ...as soon as I have better signal strength."

'I solved the problem of dead zones on my cell phone with a personal satellite,'

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

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

"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!"

"I'm being heavily recruited by several other companies."

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."

I work for a not for profit business. Mind you, two years ago it was a 'for profit' business.

"Phil's an expert networker. One drink and he's on schmooze-control."

The Love Psychologists

"Good old Frank. He was always thinking of others."

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

"Don't take this the wrong way, Howard, but I'd like to go back to having an on-line relationship."

They had a tendency to talk past one another.

"Stop squawking. Use your words."

'Before we get started, let's go around the table and practice making eye contact.'

'I didn't have a glass ceiling I had to break through... I had a golf course I had to conquer.'