Telecommunication Aficionado Pillows

'It's a World War II portable phone and it works great when I have someone to crank it.'

"We are currently experiencing an unusually high volume of calls and all our advisers are busy..."

"Please stay on the line....Your call is being ignored in the order in which it was received."

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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?

"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...'

"Hello? Speaking, not listening."

"They communicate through clicks and taps."

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

'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.'

'Don't bite. They're trolling again.'

"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.

Technology and Love

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

They had a tendency to talk past one another.

'We finally learned to communicate, and he's worse than I thought he was!

"Stop squawking. Use your words."

The Love Psychologists

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

'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.

How to engage an audience

'He says he needs his own space.'