Telephone Nostalgia Fan Mugs

'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?'

Phone. Oh, no! My Clark Kent clothes are gone! Secret Identity Theft.

"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...'

Jurassic park on the ZX Spectrum.

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

Wine stored inside an old fashioned monitor.

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

'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.'

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

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

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

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!

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

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

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

'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!"

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

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

Shaped telephone box in a maternity ward.

'Hello, is that the Compulsive Callers helpline?'

'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."

'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."

"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.'