Retro Telephone Admirer Mugs

If you're unable to press "1" because of a broken index finger, we understand. If it's because you still have a rotary-dial phone, we think you're pathetic.

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

'Dial 1-900-Fortune.'

"He's deliciously vintage."

We have a nice selection of office artifacts, a typewriter, carbon paper, ashtrays, our CEO's last handwritten memo...

Before social media there was sticky notes.

'I've seen nothing I've liked since Victor Meldrew!'

'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...'

'Honey, it's me! If you want to marry me, please press 1!'

Behold The Horror Of... The Ringing Landline

"Now it's high definition!"

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

'This is a prerecorded message. Thank you for rubbing me. Please state your name and your wish. I will get back to you as soon as possible.'

"In the olden days, people used payphones. Beats me how they took selfies!"

'Never mind what I'm wearing!'

'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."

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

Alexander Graham Bell receives his first telephone call.

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

Chinese takeout closed temporarily: 'Our abacus is down.'

20 years as Stamp Club Chaorman and they send my retirement card by E-MAIL.

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

"Still pretty liberal."

A francophile to the last, he went the way of Concord, the 2CV and the Minitel.

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

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

A.T.&T.'s New Competitors

"Could you keep it short, Daddy? I'm expecting a call."

"We heard you say you're worried about the government listening to your phone calls so we called to tell you not to worry ... yet."

Shaped telephone box in a maternity ward.

"And I'm telling you you've got the wrong pole."

"Only half an hour - that was quick! Was it a wrong number?"

'Hello, is that the Compulsive Callers helpline?'

"Will it crash in the new millenium?"