Wednesday, May 07, 2008

the new phone book's here!

We just received a brand spanking new phone book on our doorstep.

Once I opened it up to see that we were listed ... I did a little jig and said "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!!"*

Then I promptly threw it in our recycle bin while wondering if anyone who has a computer actually uses a phone book anymore.

*Be the first to name that movie and I'll send you a box of Trader Joe Peanut Butter Cups. No guarantees though, that I'll get to the post office before Halloween. And tell me, do you use a phone book?

20 comments:

  1. The Jerk! You know the US post office will pick those up at your house and mail them to me, ahem, the winning commenter? Just in case you were wondering. :)

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  2. The Jerk! STAT please.....thanks for the tip mandi:) Yes I still use the phone book. Sometimes its easier.....sometimes:)

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  3. Ha ha! I'll third The Jerk - and you are so right...I'm not sure the last time that I actually looked something up in the phonebook, but I know it was a LONG time ago!

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  4. I used a phone book the other day for the first time in AGES! To find someone to fix my computer...so I could get back on the net and use the net White Pages instead LOL

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  5. nah, we toss ours into the recycle bin as well. Right down the driveway. The thing doesn't even cross the threshold.

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  6. Ah yes, The Jerk, I remember that movie! :)

    No, no phone book here anymore, it goes right to the recycling bin as well.

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  7. We still use the phone book, especially for looking up local stuff. The majority of our computers are really slow, so it is actually faster to look it up in the book than to wait the 5 minutes for the computer to boot. That might change with the addition of the lovely new laptop that arrived a few days ago, we'll see.
    I just reread through 'A waddle in time' :) d

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  8. I last used my phonebook to find the # for the police when my laptop was stolen.
    I was too shaken up to think to use my desktop - go figure. Now the # is in my speed-dial.

    Forget the phone book though - what did we do before MapQuest? AAA trip-tiks were useful, but you'd look silly getting one when you had to go somewhere *in your own city* that you weren't familiar with the specific area. How did people deal back then? lol

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  9. Yes, I still use my phonebook. It's often easier than kicking a kid off the computer. And our local phone book is fairly small so its often faster than the white pages which will give me numbers for our whole metro area.

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  10. Oh - I wasn't the first but I did know it was The Jerk. And mine also goes in the recycle bin the minute it comes without me even looking for our name in it.

    Thanks for the great laughs you give me every day. I love your blog!

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  11. The light just went on! Thanks!
    Yes, I still use my phone book- up until now, that is. It never occured to me to use my computer to look up phone numbers. Duh.
    I learn something every day from your blog.
    -Reno

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  12. I don't use the phone book any more at all, but my old fashioned husband insists we keep it. When we have to look up a number we have a contest to see who can look it up quicker, me on the computer, him in the phone book. He always thinks he'll win, but he rarely does. I guess we keep it now as more of a game :)

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  13. I do not know the movie. Guess I haven't seen it.

    But I DO use my phone book. Mostly it's for local businesses. We live in a smaller town and not everything local is online, so we still need the yellow pages mostly.

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  14. I did the same thing yesterday. But I didnt open the bag. Just right into the recycling container. I NEVER use these things. Half the time you cant even find what youre looking for bc theres so much crap in there. And they have all the new fonts and crap. bleh.
    My father-in-law still uses phone books. Poor Mother in law had to buy a special case to hold them in bc they are tacky and he leaves them all over the place. ugh.
    Phone books are obsolete.
    -Shannon in Austin

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  15. Since my dad just retired after 26 years from Southwestern Bell Yellow Pages (as the senior sales rep for the phone book advertisement...)yes I use the phone book! :) There are certain things that are IN your blood, and that is one of them. I do throw the competitors phone book out the window. Oh and did you know there are some great coupons in them...take those out and then recycle :)

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  16. Yes. I use a phone book, because my computer is upstairs and I am too lazy when I am in the kitchen on the main floor to go up to get a number. And I use it to find addresses...ours has a pretty good local map so I keep a copy in the drawer under my seat in the van. Comes in handy when a little girl in the back of your van won't tell you which house is hers after a birthday party, even though you are sure you have the right street and house!

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  17. I hate phonebooks!!! I put them straight in the recycling bin without ever bringing them inside!!!

    Kelly (Houston)

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  18. What's a phone book?? Seriously, the last time we used ours was to make the head of the crib higher to help w/Chase's reflux.

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  19. ROFL!! I actually do say that exact same phrase whenever the new phone book arrives! Glad I'm not the only one, phew :P I also sometimes will say "except this thermos" after saying "I don't need anything" (I know, the thermos wasn't first, but it's my favorite. ;))

    I do keep a phone book handy, but I wonder why since I never use it? They're arranged in stupider and stupider ways each year, anyway.

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  20. I don't live in the states, so I don't know what the phone books there look like, but I actually use the Yellow pages of the Stockholm phone book; it has a very good map for those times where a computer isn't at hand (like in a rented car) and it is exactly the right size to prop up my computer screen ;-)

    Michaela

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