Telephone Tangle Enthusiast Mugs

"Damn it—I think I just butt-donated to a charity."

'Looks like the cat's been playing with the telephone cord again.'

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

'Dial 1-900-Fortune.'

'Mr. Coleman is on vacation. Would you care to hold?'

Tangled Earphones Support Group.

'It's the bank again... What I'd give for a bit of good old-fashioned heavy breathing!'

'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.'

...the onion rings

Call centre musicians

'The meeting ended 20 minutes ago, but we're still trying to untangle our electronics.'

'I'll be late for dinner - a shelf fell on me.'

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

'Never mind what I'm wearing!'

'I don't know where the television remote is, you had it last.'

'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.'

"Hello, Braque? Picasso here. Cubism is out."

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!

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

"Thank you for holding, your prayers have advanced in the queue and will be answered by the next available deity."

"I've been talking on this phone so much, I'm getting cauliflower ears."

Phone Calls As a Child and As an Adult

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

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

Listenin' in

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

Business executive has desk sign stating: I am in a meeting.

'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!'

"Two bars—how about you?"

Woman on the phone while her kids cause chaos in the background.

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