Telecom Enthusiast Gifts

"You can put me on hold, Ted, but I can't guarantee I'll be here when you get back."

Cell Phone Pricing Spreads

I can't talk now -- He's right here.

Iditarod Race Start. Anchorage to Nome. You find your way around Alaska by cell phone towers? Sure --- All nodes lead to Nome!

Woman hanging out her washing on telegrah wires

"Who's your long distance provider?"

The power behind Huawei

This Message Has No Content

"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."

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

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

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

'Man, times have changed.'

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

'Dial 1-900-Fortune.'

She - Interpreter - He.

All of our representatives are busy right now. Stay on the line and someone will be with you in a few miles.

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

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

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

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

"Stop squawking. Use your words."

The Love Psychologists

They had a tendency to talk past one another.

'Before we get started, let's go around the table and practice making eye contact.'

'I was just ringing to see if you'd got the email about my letter.'

'No, there's nothing on my mind, but if there was I don't want to talk about it.'

Technological advances within the office.

Relationship Issues.

'We had seven gloriously happy years together, and then he learned how to talk.'

"We don't talk."