Telephone Historians Pillows

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

'Dial 1-900-Fortune.'

'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...'

'Can't talk now, I'm just going into a tunnel.'

The early version of accidentally hitting 'reply all.'

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

Bell on early phone: 'I know it's you, Watson - stop trying to sound like Edison!'

'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.'

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

'He's so behind the times - his Hot Line is rotary!'

'Never mind what I'm wearing!'

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

Alexander Graham Bell receives his first telephone call.

Owl answers telephone.

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

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

"No, it's not valuable it's just a conversation piece."

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

'Well, it's been nice talking to you, even if you are a recording.'

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

"If you are calling from a rotary phone, you gotta be kidding!"

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

'Hello, is that the Compulsive Callers helpline?'

"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."

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

John's Early Attempts at Direct Messaging Proved Futile.

'Yes, I'm writing the message down.'

Shaped telephone box in a maternity ward.

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

Private Phone Calls

"I'm sorry, all the emergency services are busy at the moment - please hold."

"Can you hold for a second? I have Can Waiting."