Voicemail Enthusiast Gifts

"You have no new messages. You have 257 saved messages from two years ago. To admit that you are no longer popular, press '1.'"

At the beep, please tell us what you're calling about. Beep. I'm calling because I have a beep fetish. What are you wearing?

'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?'

'Telephone call for Mr. Right!'

'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...'

"You're not at all like your answering machine."

'Can't talk now, I'm just going into a tunnel.'

...the onion rings

'He's expecting a letter from the dog biscuits sweepstakes.'

'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."

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

"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!

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

Phone Calls As a Child and As an Adult

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

"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..."

Woman dresses up to talk to a suitor 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."

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

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

"He wants to know if I'm alone."

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

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

'A real person's answered it. I hate that. I'll call back when their voicemail's activated.'

Telemarketing Center: Help wanted. It's not a job - it's a calling.