Telephone History Buff Pillows

"Hello, is this Miss Davis, the nursery-school teacher? This is an obscene phone call, Miss Davis. Ca-ca, poo-poo, tushy, boom-boom..."

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

"The following phone call is brought to you by telecorp, communications professionals since 1986."

The Busy Signal

'Mr Bell: instead of 'amazeballs' could you just use 'hello'.

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

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

'Dial 1-900-Fortune.'

'It's the Secretary-General of the United Nations -- are you here?'

'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.'

'It's engaged.'

Phoning a Busy Sheep: 'Sorry I can't get to the phone right now, please make an animal noise after the bleat!'

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

'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...'

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

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

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!

'Now THERE'S a friendship I've never quite understood. That's Ludwig van Beethoven on the left, with Harvey Fernquist, the inventor of telephone 'hold' music!'

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

'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!"

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

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

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

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

'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?"

Shaped telephone box in a maternity ward.

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