Telephone Novelty Mugs

Could you send a plumber out? I think the washers have gone!

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

'Dial 1-900-Fortune.'

'Can I call you back, Frank? A giant maggot is eating my desk, people are shooting at me and my hair is on fire.'

"Hi, you've reached Susan's desk. I am monotasking right now, so I'll call you back it's the phone's turn again. Beep!"

"This may take a minute as my mom's menu options have changed."

'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...'

'It's engaged.'

'I won't be taking any more calls today. I threw my phone out the window.'

In an operating theatre, a jack-in-the-box jumps our of the patients stomach

Due to higher-than-usual caller volume, your wait-time is nine minutes. That's over an hour in wolverine minutes.

Call centre musicians

'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.'

"Yes, I'm still on hold and counting the billable minutes."

'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.'

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

"I'm well aware that your e-mail isn't working. I got your first message."

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.

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

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

"You can stop holding sir, everyone has gone home."

I can't come in today. I haven't got chronic diarrhoea!

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

"One moment, please, while I put you on character building hold."

'Hello, is that the Compulsive Callers helpline?'

Shaped telephone box in a maternity ward.

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

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

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

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."