Techy Communicator Gifts

"I'm succumbing to my facebook group mentality."

'I have a plan 'B' but that's also dependent on a working projector bulb.'

'I'm Jeremy's father. I'm a computer consultant and I'm unemployed.'

21st century water cooler conversations.

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"And do you, Deborah Tannen, think they know what they're talking about?"

"You've got to learn about verbs. How else are you going to verbalize your feelings?

"Hello? Speaking, not listening."

'Bob, I know you're a Mockingbird, but a few compliments every now and then would greatly help your marriage...'

"I don't believe I've missed a single sign since you made the switch to Power Point."

'The World will speak hip-hop tomorrow.'

'I'm majoring in communication and minoring in pizza delivery - What about you?'

She - Interpreter - He.

'...honestly I just feel like we don't communicate like we used to!'

'I'm also fluent in Geek.'

"Dad's got a promotion. How can now mute middle management."

"We don't talk anymore."

With the popularity of spell-checkers, many people are turning to the new speech-checkers.

'Would everyone please phrase their questions in ones and zeros please.'

'The usual ‘nod, nod, wink, wink' will do, Walter. We don't need the eyebrow twitch and nostril flares.'

"Hi, you've reached Susan's desk. I am monotasking right now, so I'll call you back it's the phone's turn again. Beep!"

"My Blackberry will get in touch with your Blackberry."

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On-the-job creativity may go unrewarded an may even create consternation among co-workers.

"When we first started seeing each other, we would always use the same word for snow."

My wife's been talking to the skin I shed for over an hour.

'Can't we handle this through more impersonal channels like text messaging?'

Birds on a wire, "Bernie?...Oh he's gone cable!"

F&E Diner. I'll bet you want the alphabet soup, right? Hey! Don't put words in my mouth!

"Abbreviations here, abbreviations there, and one is more incomprehensible than the next!"

"I speak Latin, you know."

"Stop squawking. Use your words."

'Modern romance'

They had a tendency to talk past one another.

The Love Psychologists