Telephone Nostalgia Fan Gifts

'You have one message from yourself, you sad, lonely man'

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

'Dial 1-900-Fortune.'

"And this is one of our most poular models..."

'Remember when we used desktop computers? When everyone at least 'looked' busy?'

"Goodnight Tommy, sleeptight, watch the millenium bugs don't bite."

'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...'

"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.'

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

Wine stored inside an old fashioned monitor.

'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.'

Alexander Graham Bell receives his first telephone call.

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

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

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

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

'Who are you calling 'oldtimer', sonny?!'

"Oh yes, here it is, early morning call 7:30...I can't imagine how we overlooked it Mr Van Winkle!"

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

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."

"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.

'Inserting paper, lining it up, striking the keys, hitting the return carriage. I'd get him a computer, but he's doing just fine.'

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

"When we were young we didn't have those fancy toys. We had to develop our imaginations."

'Help! As a contrarian I invested in rotary and supersized phones.'

Female impersonator hogging the phone box.