Phone-checking Aficionado Gifts

"Well, would you look at that. . . it's been below zero for two weeks back home."

"They communicate through clicks and taps."

'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?'

"The fourth horseman says that he will be late. He hasn't left the Old Testament yet."

'The King of what?'

Technology and Love

Mobile phones and long distance relationships,

"It's an app that lets me know when I'm bored."

'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...'

Children and technolohgy

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

Phone Mittens

...the onion rings

"Aren't these old eighties phones tiny!"

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

'Hey Josh! This is the Grim Reaper calling. No really! I'm using all the new technologies now and, so sad, your minutes on earth - well, they're up!'

'This is Kevin O'Shea, my big sister's answering service.'

'But Grandma, how did you text on them?'

Phone generation.

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

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

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

'He's so behind the times - his Hot Line is rotary!'

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

"Oh, hello darling..."

"He hasn't been the same since his phone died."

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

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

'Texting Bee'

Alexander Graham Bell receives his first telephone call.

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