Conversation Specialist Pillows

"He'll talk your ear off."

"I've got a patient who needs to chat to someone...Have you got anyone who's completed the 'verbal communications with patients in personal, supportive but not disempowering course?"

"Remember the golden rule: more buzzwords, less real words."

"On a more positive note the guidance we’ve published on the services we can’t provide is published in 37 different languages."

"And isn't it time we replaced the worn-out, meaningless cliches in our mission statement with some dazzlingly new meaningless cliches?"

"Don't even interact with him. He just likes to say 'Kalamazoo.'"

"And now here's Cathie with the hypothetical portion of the news."

"Damn - another letter to the editor."

Dialogue

"Could I ask just one question?"

"Nope, I still only have one bar."

"What's going on Jen? Why didn't you respond to my kissing emoji?"

'Now that we've learned to talk, maybe we should establish some speech codes.'

"....So called 'fake news' is dangerous to our democracy!"

Ruddy bloggers!

"Who knew we had so many dislikes in common?"

Lies/Damned Lies/Social Media

Information...political rhetoric

'I want to discuss communication clarity.'

'Stop emailing me, I am standing right here.'

'Hi! I'm on the tree.'

"'Grim Reapers' was considered too offensive, these days we're known as 'afterlife facilitators.'"

"Well, after ad school, our Timothy made a 6-second Ad that nobody saw."

Talk shows are great. Listen shows are even better.

'I can't read their smoke signal. It's encrypted.'

"Miss Duxbury, put me through to someone."

'My father is very hard to communicate with ? he only knows nouns and interjections.'

'Come on, Walter, you're wasting out time! Stop using complete sentences!'

" I'm sorry. I was so busy listening to myself talk that I forgot what I was saying."

"In response to your request for better communications, I'm going to increase my lengthy explanation by 50%."

"Here are today's leading factoids, and I'm Skip Shumaker, spoon-feeding them to you!"

'The doctors say I have a rare illness that turns people into birds - it's untweetable.'

'Who wants the talking stick?'

"Isn't us talking about how I would never take a ballroom dancing class an activity we're doing together?"

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