Dialling Option Enthusiast Mugs

"Press 8 to be put on hold for what seems like forever...press 9 to phone back tomorrow."

'Yes, as a matter of fact, you have caught me at a bad time.'

'Dial 1-900-Fortune.'

'Mr. Coleman is on vacation. Would you care to hold?'

All of our representatives are busy right now. Stay on the line and someone will be with you in a few miles.

'The King of what?'

Mobile phones and long distance relationships,

'Telephone call for Mr. Right!'

'It's the bank again... What I'd give for a bit of good old-fashioned heavy breathing!'

'And now for the anesthesia: I've got plenty of conventional anesthetics I could use here but you can also choose to spend half an hour on the phone with my mother...'

'Can't talk now, I'm just going into a tunnel.'

'I'm not convinced you need tranquillizers to switch phone provider.'

...the onion rings

'I'll be late for dinner - a shelf fell on me.'

'If you don't mind, my sales manager wanted me to call him the second you took the hook.'

"No, you hang up first. No, you!"

'If you don't mind, I'm trying to use the telephone here.'

"Yes, I'm still on hold and counting the billable minutes."

"He'll come to eat when he can interrupt dinner. He's playing telemarketer."

'Environmental dept? Yes, just a query. It's August, it's 85?. It has been for 3 months now...'

"Hello, Braque? Picasso here. Cubism is out."

Alexander Graham Bell receives his first telephone call.

Robinson Crusoe on the phone - "Big job. No problem, it'll be done by Friday."

Owl answers telephone.

Look, I'm not shocked. It's just that you sounded a bit different on the phone!

Alexander Graham Bell - invents the telephone and makes the first 1900 call.

Woman on the phone while her kids cause chaos in the background.

Woman dresses up to talk to a suitor on the phone.

"Thank you for holding, your prayers have advanced in the queue and will be answered by the next available deity."

Phone Calls As a Child and As an Adult

"No, it's not valuable it's just a conversation piece."

'My son never called me until he became a telemarketer.'

Business executive has desk sign stating: I am in a meeting.

'Well, it's been nice talking to you, even if you are a recording.'

"Baldo, let everyone know that Tia Carmen is in the hospital!"