Voicemail Enthusiast Mugs

'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...'

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

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

...the onion rings

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

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

"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, 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!

Phone Calls As a Child and As an Adult

"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."

'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."

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

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

"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.

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

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

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

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