Remember when, as kids, we were all taught to dial the operator in case of an emergency? Don't try that today.

It just goes to show the forward thinking of the Stranger. I recall an assignment given to the unpaid intern to collect and deliver a shit-ton of Dex phone books back to the publisher.

One of my favorites outside of "lets yell at the ducks"

Two quick observations;
1) Who the fuck still uses a pay phone?

2) Who the fuck still uses a phone book?

You have options;

http://www.komonews.com/news/consumer/16…

I get like 10 phone books a year. Can we ban them everywhere? Such a waste.

It's interesting that in Georgia it's actually AT&T that wants to stop delivering phone books while the state commission is hesitant.

Well, yeah, but that's "Joe-Ja." They have yet to join the 20th Century, much less the 21st.

It is only the White pages that they are discussing doing away with, other companies will still be able to drop 20 pounds of yellow garbage on your front doorstep with impunity. We need a ban!

To hell with telephones--I'll use pay phones (becoming rarer and rarer thanks to all you folks who have to be in contact [with somebody-ANYBODY! CALL ME NOW!!] and on call 24/7 from your employers {Ask yourselves, "is your life better for being tied to these fuckers?!?!"--you know the answer!), and I use phone books (not very scarce until I need one). Don't own a phone of any kind, and never have, and though I'll probably need one in the next few years--I'm 60--I'M GOING TO FUCKING HATE EVERY SECOND I'M ON IT!
We didn't get dial phones until I was in sixth grade--roughly 1960. Before that it was: "Number, please?" "8-6-1-W, please." "Thank you."