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Keyword:
Telephone
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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
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
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
Telephone: A contrivance for letting us talk to people whom we don’t want to meet.
Anonymous
Definitions
Things
Telephone
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
I met this girl, she was an actress, and she gave me her number; it started with 555.
Mitch Hedberg
(1968 – 2005) American stand-up comedian
Communication
Dating
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
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
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
Men like phones with lots of buttons; it makes them feel important.
Rita Rudner
(1953 – ) comedian, dancer & writer
Communication
Men
People
Things
Buttons
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
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
1. The telephone will ring when you are outside the door, fumbling for your keys.2. You will reach it just in time to hear the click of the caller hanging up.
Bess’s Universal Principles
Communication
Murphy’s Laws
Things
Telephone
I plugged my phone in where the blender used to be and when I called someone they went “Aaaaahhhh…”
Steven Wright
(1955 – ) comedian, actor & writer
Communication
Things
Blender
Telephone
When a body is immersed in water, the telephone will ring.
Archimedes's Third Principle
Murphy’s Laws
Baths
Telephone
Remember to never answer a phone during sex, even if you hilariously answer with, ‘I can’t talk now, I’m going into a tunnel.'
Jimmy Carr
(1972 – ) Anglo-Irish comedian, writer & actor
Sex
Things
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
It all started when my dog began getting free roll over minutes.
Jay London
(1966 – ) American stand-up comic
Animals
Dogs
Telephone
You might be a redneck if… you have the local taxidermist's number on speed dial.
Jeff Foxworthy
(1958 – ) stand-up comedian & television personality
People
Rednecks
Taxidermist
Telephone
I got an answering machine for my phone; now when I’m not home and somebody calls me up, they hear a recording of a busy signal.
Steven Wright
(1955 – ) comedian, actor & writer
Communication
Answering machine
Telephone
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