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It's huge what is it?
I don't know. someone just dropped it on our front porch.
I opened it...it just has thousands of names.
Goat:It's called a phonebook. and that's how we used to find people's phone numbers.
HAHAHAHAHA
Goat: We're old now.
BE THIS GUY about 8 years ago
The real funny thing is how much thinner the phone book is now compared to 15 years ago.
Templo S.U.D. about 8 years ago
what’s next: the kids laughing at a dial-up Internet connection?
Bilan about 8 years ago
The real purpose of yellow pages is for the publisher to make lots of money selling ads.
asianwoof about 8 years ago
Mom, what’s a “landline” phone?
Kind&Kinder about 8 years ago
Land lines are very effective if the power goes out and your cell depletes. They’ll have to pry mine out of my cold, dead hands. That might be a cliche, but I love my land line!
sylverdrag about 8 years ago
Thing is, we no longer have a reliable way to find people’s phone numbers.
blunebottle about 8 years ago
Funny thing, last time I got a phone book delivered, I went to the drawer to put it away…and found 2 previous year’s worth, still in their wrappers! Guess I don’t use them anymore.
Proginoskes about 8 years ago
Is there a way to opt out of getting phone books delivered to you?
PICTO about 8 years ago
Speed dialing killed the phone book.
NeedaChuckle Premium Member about 8 years ago
Used to get ONE phonebook a year when I needed one. Today I get 2 or 3 and don’t even look at them. Waste of paper.
juicebruce about 8 years ago
You know every time items from the past that young people do not know about comes up it shows the failure of the education system. That is sad :-(
546mailbox about 8 years ago
Just smack the kids with the phonebook and see how much they laugh.
mortaur about 8 years ago
NOW? You were old WAAAYYYY before now!
SkyFisher about 8 years ago
In the heart of the Appalachian Mountains, cell phone reception is very spotty, even from one end of the house to the other. A landline is essential . I would imagine it’s even worse in the Rockies.
YatInExile about 8 years ago
I haven’t used a phone book in at least 20 years.
dadoctah about 8 years ago
They still deliver them here, to the door that nobody in this neighborhood ever uses or in most cases even sees (the parking is near the back door and the directory people insist of leaving the books in front)..Then, two or three months later, someone from the homeowners’ association runs around with their little clipboard and sends letters to everyone threatening a fine for “unsightly debris around the front door”.
car2ner about 8 years ago
we have our landline for out going emergency calls only…like, Dial 911! Oh Crap where did I leave me phone??? We always know where the landline will be.
As far as the phone book, I can’t hardly read the darn things with these older eyes.
david_42 about 8 years ago
Living on the edge of Portland, OR, phone books are rather useless; any company/service I need is more likely to be in another town than the one I live in. I’m glad I don’t have to go to the library every time I need a drain unclogged.
Max Starman Jones about 8 years ago
I still know most neighbors’ phone numbers by heart in the rural community where I live, but their numbers are no longer in the directory since most of them switched to a wireless service and kept their number. This year, for the first time, our phone book didn’t even try to have a residential directory. All it has are business numbers and a yellow pages. I don’t even know where it is because I never use it.
nerdhoof about 8 years ago
You don’t have a car?
jimboklein about 8 years ago
20 years ago, the Phoenix Metropolitan Area Yellow Pages was 2 full-sized volumes — A thru M and N thru Z. Over the years it shrunk to about 1/2 the size of a single volume. I don’t think they even print them anymore. I haven’t seen one in a couple of years.
sarah413 Premium Member about 8 years ago
What’s next, switchboards? I have a rotary phone and that sucker can double as a weapon. Has to weigh five pounds and would concuss anyone it hit.
I Go Pogo about 8 years ago
At my house we have an annual two step phone book ritual. Step 1 – remove plastic. Step 2 – Place book in recycling bin.
skipper1992 about 8 years ago
My b-i-l is a firefighter. He’s required to have a landline so that he can still be reached if something goes boom with cellular service (or even just if his phone dies).
Stream of conscience about 8 years ago
They make great doorstops.
sllynch about 8 years ago
Be glad if you still have a working copper-wire landline; they’re phasing them out in my area; Verizon is going to Wi-Fi instead (where Fios isn’t yet available).
Number Three about 8 years ago
Nothing like the good old Yellow Pages!
xxx
billdaviswords about 8 years ago
Honest Slogans: Yellow Pages… Here, YOU throw this awayhttp://honestslogans.com/post/64789187025/yellowpages
Phatts about 8 years ago
Whadya mean, “power goes out”? You folks don’t have your solar cells up?
angelfiredragon about 8 years ago
what is funny is to imagine people doing stuff these days without internet, lets see these kids look up phone numbers without internet, lets see them twitter without internet or facebook….example someone twittering without internet, would be walking along spouting out short sentences to all those around to see if anyone will follow them…they sure would look crazy.
Now imagine facebook, someone carrying a bunch of pictures and posters trying to show off their pictures (probably a bunch of selfies) and posting quotes or sharing things they found.
Just saying, the internet took something that most would consider crazy and made crazy normal.
mr_sherman Premium Member about 8 years ago
He must be an old goat then.
Sherlock Watson about 8 years ago
I have a landline for use at home, a cell for when I’m not at home, and a phone book so I can look up the power company’s number when there’s an outage.:I am invincible!
Sisyphos about 8 years ago
I have a landline only, and being somewhat a loner make very few phone calls ever; my phone acts almost exclusively as a receiver. I still get annual, ever-smaller Yellow and Business Pages phonebooks, but rarely use them….
HowieL about 8 years ago
“Dad, why do you say you’re dialing a phone number when all you’re doing is pushing buttons?”
Packratjohn Premium Member about 8 years ago
Grandpa, she asked, what is an “Operator”?
route66paul about 8 years ago
Land lines got more and more expensive and now “lifeline”(E phone service for the indigent) is going celluar. The government wants it that way. They can track your location and it is easier to listen in or read texts(because of phone privacy rights).
Loopy Frogger Premium Member about 8 years ago
So true…. So true… I wonder if the grand kids will be laughing about smart phones… ?
washatkc about 8 years ago
Can’t you charge your phone in your car?
Darth Revan II almost 4 years ago
I know people who claim to never have opened a book.
Themanofoor54 almost 4 years ago
40th comment
SuperCharged5- almost 3 years ago
hah jokes on you i have a wireless phone attached to a landline