Phone books...

XnMeX - 1-19-2011 at 04:32 PM

clevohardcore - 1-19-2011 at 04:35 PM

JIm Rome was taling about this yesterday. Very good point.

XHonusWagnerX - 1-19-2011 at 04:37 PM

Yeah why do they still print that!?

JawnDiablo - 1-19-2011 at 04:43 PM

there's been phone books sitting in the hallway of my apartment for months because my neighbors neither want one or are willing to dispose of them.....
my girl actually brought ours in and I was like what you gonna do with that? make a booster seat?
she's like oh I feel bad for the phone book.
I tell her to quit yappin and make me a sammich, now git!

Furly - 1-19-2011 at 05:03 PM

I still use phone books! I get the local ones plus get them for surrounding area's (I'm right on the NH boarder), plus get one from Maine where I manage properties. I think they are useful.....

However, I think they should ask who wants them instead of wasting so much.

BDx13 - 1-19-2011 at 05:30 PM

i heard they were going to a 'by request only' model.
can;t happen soon enough.

Discipline - 1-19-2011 at 07:00 PM

Call me old fashioned, but I prefer using a phone book to looking online.

Six66Mike - 1-19-2011 at 10:47 PM

If I'm trying to find something local I usually go to the books instead of the web. Like yesterday when I wanted to find local dentists, I just hit up the location guide for dentists & found one.

XnMeX - 1-20-2011 at 08:43 AM

Good old smart phone, I don't even need a phone book...

*presses voice dial button without looking up or ever having called the number*
Call Walmart Portsmouth NH
*dials*

JawnDiablo - 1-20-2011 at 12:03 PM

I just tear them in half and use them as toilet paper

Colin - 1-20-2011 at 01:48 PM

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Originally posted by juandiablo
I just tear them in half and use them as toilet paper

I've had to resort to that in the past.

I also don't understand why I still get big phonebooks from two different companies, & then one of them gives me a little one. I only need one, if that.

XnMeX - 1-20-2011 at 02:16 PM

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Originally posted by Blackout Colin

Quote:

Originally posted by juandiablo
I just tear them in half and use them as toilet paper

I've had to resort to that in the past.

I also don't understand why I still get big phonebooks from two different companies, & then one of them gives me a little one. I only need one, if that.

Advertising. Companies are still paying the phonebooks to print advertising. I am sure the rates have gone down A LOT!