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Telephone
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It all started when my dog began getting free roll over minutes.
Jay London
(1966 – ) American stand-up comic
Animals
Dogs
Telephone
Why is it that when a man talks dirty to a woman, it's sexual harassment, but when a woman talks dirty to a man, it's $3.95/minute?
Anonymous
Communication
Men
Speech
Women
Sexual harassment
Telephone
No, you didn’t wake me up; I had to get up to answer the phone anyway.
‘Yogi' Berra
(1925 – 2015) baseball player, coach & manager
Sleep
Yogi-isms
Telephone
My grandma always says that she never gets any phone calls; so, for her birthday, I put one of those ‘How’s my driving?’ bumper stickers on her car.
Chris Hobb
comedian
Autos
Communication
Relationships
Bumper stickers
Grandmothers
Telephone
Chatterbox: Another name for a telephone booth.
Anonymous
Definitions
Things
Chatterbox
Telephone
The bathtub was invented in 1850 and the telephone in 1875 … In other words, if you had been living in 1850, you could have sat in the bathtub for 25 years without having to answer the phone.
Bill DeWitt
(1902 – 1982) American professional baseball executive & club owner
Miscellaneous
Things
Bathtub
Telephone
The effectiveness of a telephone conversation is in inverse proportion to the time spent on it.
Parkinson's Law of the Telephone
Communication
Conversation
Murphy’s Laws
Time
Telephone
Did you ever meet a mother who’s complained that her child phoned her too often… me neither.
Maureen Lipman
(1946 – ) British actress, columnist & comedian
Children
Communication
Family
Mothers
Telephone
All phone calls are obscene.
Karen Elizabeth Gordon
American author
Communication
Language
Obscene
Telephone
Well, if I called the wrong number, why did you answer the phone?
James Thurber
(1894 – 1961) author, cartoonist & humorist
Communication
Situations
Things
Telephone
Wrong number
There are worse things than getting a call for the wrong number at 4 a.m… it could be the right number.
Doug Larson
(1926 – ) newspaper columnist
Communication
Time
Telephone
Wrong number
I rang up British Telecom, I said 'I want to report a nuisance caller,' he said 'Not you again.’
Frank Carson
(1926 – 2012) Irish comedian & actor
Communication
Nuisance callers
Telephone
If the phone doesn’t ring, it’s me.
Jimmy Buffett
(1946 – ) singer, songwriter, author & businessman
Emotions
Things
(also Firth’s Law of Tailoring)
Telephone
Remember that as a teenager you are at the last stage of your life when you will be happy to hear that the phone is for you.
Fran Lebowitz
(1950 – ) writer & humorist
Communication
Life
People
Things
Teenagers
Telephone
The voice of love seemed to call me… but it was a wrong number.
P.G. Wodehouse
(1881 – 1975) English writer & humorist
Emotions
Love
Telephone
I tried phone sex and got an ear infection.
Richard Lewis
(1947 – ) comedian & actor
Health
Sex
Telephone
For a list of all the ways technology has failed to improve the quality of life, please press 3.
Alice Kahn
(1943 – 2004) author & psychologist
Science/Weather
Quality of life
Technology
Telephone
A telephone survey says that 51 percent of college students drink until they pass out at least once a month… the other 49 percent didn’t answer the phone.
Craig Kilborn
(1962 – ) American actor and talk show host
Alcohol
Food/Drink
People
College students
Telephone
Have you ever called the wrong number? They’re always in aren’t they?
Lee Evans
(1964 – ) English comedian, writer, actor & musician
Situations
Things
Telephone
The Internet is the most important single development in the history of human communication since the invention of call waiting.
Dave Barry
(1947 – ) American columnist & humorist
Communication
Computers
Science/Weather
Things
Internet
Telephone
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