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When is the last time you used a phone book ?

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Started 11 months ago by BuffaloHawk
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BuffaloHawk

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They left a few in front of my office door and I pretty much put them in the recycle bin. I was thinking to myself that I haven't used one in years with todays technology and makes me wonder if anyone still uses one.

Posted 11 months ago #
Apple

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Last time I used a phone book was March 2011 while in vacation in Kauai. They have tsunami evacuation zones marked on them in the front. Besides that, probably 10 years. Seattle allows you to register to opt out. My wife did it and we haven't gotten one since. Here is a link. http://www.seattle.gov/util/Services/Recycling/ReduceReuseExchange/StopPhoneBooks/index.htm

Posted 11 months ago #
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I still use a phone book daily, it raises the height of a computer monitor by 2 inches. Interestingly, it has an advertisement that covers almost the entire spine of the book... for laptop repair. Somebody was smart enough to figure out that is all people use them for anymore.

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BuffaloHawk

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LMAO - pix

Apple I am personally signed in with the link a long time ago so I don't get a phone book at my residence. It is good that you posted the link on here for some peeps that may not be signed up and wanted to do so. I am also curious as to how many people still have a land line besides using it for internet hook up.

Posted 11 months ago #
Alferd Packer

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1. They make great emergency booster seats for the dining table for visiting kids.
2. They can be used in place of the sears roebuck catalog in outhouses
3. They make good fire starters
4. You can demonstrate your manliness by ripping one in half

Posted 11 months ago #
phoo

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1999. That was the year I was talked into buying DSL, rather than dialup.

Posted 11 months ago #
wolfden

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I dropped a phone book on stopgo's head when he was a child. That was the last time I've used one of those. Phone books do make me feel good about recycling and they serve as good LCD monitor stands. I can't bear to look at the color though and they go back in the recycling bin.

Posted 11 months ago #
gracie

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Pixel - that's where my Yellow Pages are at work. Right under my monitor. Actually there have been times when it was hard to find busines I was looking for on line & wished at that moment had a book. Especially if computer has crashed. Then it's to 411.

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BuffaloHawk

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gracie - I swear 411.com sucks for business listings and I have much better luck with google.

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gracie

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BH - yep, 411 is not the best. If anything, an exercise in frustration!

Posted 11 months ago #
dsomers

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I honestly can't remember the last time I used one. Wow!

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Posted 11 months ago #
Norge

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Last week. I actually use them quite often. I find it faster to look something up in the phone book than use the computer -- especially when I know what I am looking for and don't have the phone number handy.

Posted 11 months ago #
iPlod

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I use a phone book for testing the strength of my porch.

Posted 11 months ago #
teigyr

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Not for ages though I love them. Online shows you what you think you're looking for but I like knowing what else is out there. What was that movie, "The Idiot"? The one with "the new phone books are here, the new phone books are here!". That was me. It really did come in handy once, I found a dog that had been hit by a car on the freeway. It was 20ish miles from home BUT I knew where the closest emergency vet was just because I was *that* person who would really read the phone book.

Posted 11 months ago #
pixlpete

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The Jerk.

Nothing? Are you kidding? Page 73 - Johnson, Navin R.! I'm somebody now! Millions of people look at this book everyday! This is the kind of spontaneous publicity - your name in print - that makes people. I'm in print! Things are going to start happening to me now.

Posted 11 months ago #
teigyr

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Oh yeah, The Jerk. THAT is what happens when I don't really care enough to figure it out :) I still like phone books but what I don't like are the competing companies in putting them out. One phonebook -- put out by the phone company. We're on opt-out too though so no phone books here.

Posted 11 months ago #
Novalis

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Well, did use it to kill a spider that broke the rules about, staying up on the ceiling. .

Was around two years ago, that.

Posted 11 months ago #
SmartsyArtsy

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I can't even remember the last time I had one in my home.

Posted 11 months ago #
Kyle

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We need phone books down at Pratt Fine Arts Center - we're running out. We use them to help clean up the rollers and other tools in printmaking class.

Posted 11 months ago #
Pastafarian

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What the hell is a phone book?

Posted 11 months ago #
iPlod

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It's a phone that looks like a book.

Posted 11 months ago #
pennygirl

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Booster seats. Haven't used them for years. Why are they still in the closet? Time for a purge.

Posted 11 months ago #
iPlod

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Ahem, I have a small home based phone book upholstering service for those that may be interested.

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