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...'

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

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

...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!"

Hello, 911? … The pizza place isn't answering their phone!!

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

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

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

'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."

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

Alexander Graham Bell receives his first telephone call.

Owl answers telephone.

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

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

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

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

Phone Calls As a Child and As an Adult

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

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

"He wants to know if I'm alone."

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

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