Teen-aged telephonophiles are quite another problem. Have you considered giving them a separate wire, or restricting their phone calls during certain hours when you might be expecting a call?

Surrounded by their children, their gradual and unpremature decay conducts them, by gentle degrees, to the peaceful grave […]

And don't call me Your Holiness, Daimbert, unless you expect me to start calling you Your Wizardliness! The candles were lit, and the bishop's servant brought the soup.

A: well r u goi – B: huh? – A: nm tht was a mistake