Telephone History Pillows

Private Phone Calls

'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.'

1876 - Alexander Graham Bell made the world's first telephone call.

'Welcome to the rat race.'

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

'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.'

'Never mind what I'm wearing!'

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

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

Alexander Graham Bell receives his first telephone call.

'If you now feel like punching someone in the face. . . press five!'

Owl answers telephone.

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

You are on hold. Press One for Vivaldi...

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

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

'My land line is always busy...that's my answering machine fending off robocalls.'

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

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

"Thank you for calling the honesty foundation, your call in unimportant to us, so leave a message for us to laugh at when you hear the tone..."

'If I give you some of my friends' cell phone numbers, will you leave me alone?'

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

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

'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!'

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

'Hello, is that the Compulsive Callers helpline?'

Shaped telephone box in a maternity ward.

'Thank you for holding. By the way, what were you holding.'