Connectivity Connoisseurs Gifts

Workaholic Ned Fulgum takes his first day off in over fifty-seven years.

'The meaning of communinication is the response we get'

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

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

Dialogue

Wifi in Hell

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

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

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

With the popularity of spell-checkers, many people are turning to the new speech-checkers.

"Help! I'm surrounded by idiots."

'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.'

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

"It probably got lost in the voice mail."

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

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

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

"Never mind the sea, does it get wi-fi?"

"Miss Duxbury, put me through to someone."

Telephone message - 'This is a recording. If you'd like to speak to a real live human being, forgetaboutit.

Harvey went to the kitchen to top up his gin and tonic. When he came back, things took an unexpected turn.

Exposed Intimacy Safety Vulnerability Hidden Enmity

Bill was so determined to Twitter no one dared tell him he couldn't do it with a calculator.

"My spokesperson won't speak to me."

Your Leaders Putting Words Into More Words

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

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

"I'm a great ... umm... like ... umm... like... umm ... communicator."

"It's not easy texting my mother. She's an English teacher and all she does is correct my spelling."

"I missed your last few words. Would you please mumble them again?"

"I love my new texting app, it automatically selects peoples preferred pronouns."

MARRIAGE COUNSELOR, 'Our biological clocks are in different time zones.'

"Yeah, this many ways to contact her if I'm lost might be overkill."

"He's in a meeting, but you have 25 seconds to leave a video message."