Telephone Enthusiast Pillows

'I said... SPEAK UP!'

'Martha, I actually reached a human being.'

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

Alexander Graham Bell receives his first telephone call.

'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...'

Hotline.

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

Edna's vocal chords - the human perpetual-motion machine...

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

'I'm either away from my desk or on the other line. Please leave a message at the sound of my impersonation of a beep.'

'Sorry - wrong number... cute message though.'

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

Man in armchair surrounded by phones on fish hooks

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

Dog blocking entrance to phone booth

'You're going to die in agony.'

Dial M for Mummy.

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

heavy breather

The First phone call was not exactly as history books report it.

"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."

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

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

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

"Hold the line a minute, dear – I'm trying to think what I have on my mind."

'Hello, is that the Compulsive Callers helpline?'

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

Shaped telephone box in a maternity ward.

'Watson, come here! I need you!' 'What?!'

'Please note, all calls will be recorded and could be used for training purposes. . . So don't ask any difficult questions.'

'Dial 1-900-Fortune.'

'I've won back all the money I lost on premium rate phone calls.'

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

Hold on, Simone – I'm putting you on speaker. Bark bark bark bark.

You may stop holding my calls, now, Ms. Baker. Actually, Mr. Fusco, I stopped holding your calls two weeks ago. Nobody is calling. (This cartoon was originally published on 2010-08-25).