Nostalgic Communicator Pillows

"Hi..just ringing to see if you got my e-mail?"

"I'm through with smart phones. My girlfriend broke up with me in a text, my teacher flunked me in an email, and my mom grounded me on Facebook."

Pigeon: 'Ever heard of Text Messaging?'

'I know you never get grandpa's texts, but I don't have the heart to tell him he's using the TV remote.'

"Of course I know how to text message, only I use a pen and paper and call it writing a letter."

'I'd write to complain, but there's nowhere left to buy a stamp.'

Man receiving a fax

"I mess those old unreadable faxes. They gave you a lot of room for creative interpretation."

With so many ways to communicate, only airmail still gets their attention.

Writing a letter

The End of Landlines

Early Texting

Four Stages of Communication: Tell, Bell, Cell, Hell.

Metadata free communications

"Remember, Dance-With-Buffalo, only up to 140 clouds."

'Doing this with his e-mails made more impact than sending them.'

'I don't care what long distance carrier we have, mister. I don't know anyone past Oak Street.'

'Sure, you write me, but you never instant-message me.'

'...Can you hear me now? Ugh! ~@*%! wireless phone!'

'I prefer old fashion email messages. I can always deny I ever got them.'

"I don't care about the rating on Goodreads. We're reading Cinderella!"

Ten Plagues for Today's Seder

"Hipsters"

Toy Shops and Educated Children

Letter Collecting Nerd

'It's worse than we thought: You've got termites.'

Kindergarten. Today; Simon Says. I don't know who this "Simon Says" is, but he could make a killing in product endorsements!

'This is a letter opener, from the days before faxes and email. I just sold it online after I listed it as a vintage communication device.'

"We've intended to ask you about it for some time, Doctor, but never got around to it."

"Well, Mr. Goddam Fancy-Pants Small-Town-Expose hot shot! What makes you think we don't all have lusty, kiss-and-tell memoirs boiling away inside us?"

How Grandma Sees the Remote

"Back in my day, kids had a little respect for the law of gravity."

"I've learned from the past. Now can we move on?"

'You used to make love to me like a Flying Scotsman, now you're more like a Puffing Billy!'

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