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Telephone
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Men like phones with lots of buttons; it makes them feel important.
Rita Rudner
(1953 – ) comedian, dancer & writer
Communication
Men
People
Things
Buttons
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
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
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
I’m too shy to express my sexual needs except over the phone to people I don’t know.
Garry Shandling
(1949 – 2016) American comedian & television actor
Characteristics
Communication
Sex
Shyness
Telephone
When a body is immersed in water, the telephone will ring.
Archimedes's Third Principle
Murphy’s Laws
Baths
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
For three days after death, hair and fingernails continue to grow but phone calls taper off.
Johnny Carson
(1925 – 2005) television host
Communication
Death
Hair
Time
Fingernails
Telephone
It all started when my dog began getting free roll over minutes.
Jay London
(1966 – ) American stand-up comic
Animals
Dogs
Telephone
No name, no matter how simple, can be correctly understood over the phone.
Anonymous Murphy's Law
Communication
Murphy’s Laws
Things
Telephone
Telephone: An invention of the devil which abrogates some of the advantages of making a disagreeable person keep his distance.
Ambrose Bierce
(1842 – 1914) author & satirist
Communication
Definitions
Things
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
My daughter and I are very close, we speak every single day and I call her every day and I say the same thing, “Pick up, I know you’re there.”
Joan Rivers
(1935 – 2014) American comedian, television personality, writer & director
Children
Communication
Family
Telephone
If a man says, "I'll call you," and he doesn't, he didn't forget, he didn't lose your number, he didn't die… he just didn't want to call you.
Rita Rudner
(1953 – ) comedian, dancer & writer
Communication
Men
People
Telephone
I tell ya, my wife likes to talk during sex; last night, she called me from a motel.
Rodney Dangerfield
(1921 – 2004) stand-up comedian & actor
Communication
Marriage
Sex
Speech
Wives
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
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
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
I don’t own a cell phone or a pager; I just hang around everyone I know, all the time.
Mitch Hedberg
(1968 – 2005) American stand-up comedian
Communication
Pager
Telephone
All phone calls are obscene.
Karen Elizabeth Gordon
American author
Communication
Language
Obscene
Telephone
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