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Who uses the phone book?
ARTIFICIAL LIMBS, bingo equipment, choreographers, clairvoyants and detective agencies . . . If you need it, there’s a fair chance you’ll find it in the 2010 Golden Pages, which landed with a dull thud on doorsteps and in hallways around the capital early last month. Read the rest of this article here.
October 10th, 2010.
October 10th, 2010 at 11:42 pm
At your last point… for some reason I can’t throw them out. I actually tried to do it last night but they looked at me so official and government like that I freaked out that some telephone book inspector guy was going to knock on my door and ask to see my phone books and then arrest me for disposing of a compulsory household document. I’ve just left them on top of the bookshelf. We don’t have a phone in our house.
October 11th, 2010 at 12:07 am
I now live, alas, in a land without central heating so have become a dab hand at setting and lighting fires. (To say nothing of wielding an axe for chopping kindling.) Phonebook pages are really great for getting a fire to “take”.
October 11th, 2010 at 1:35 am
@ Kate – Australian authorities sound very oppressive.
@ Lisa – You’re in NZ. That means summer on the way for both of you. B’ah.
October 11th, 2010 at 2:25 am
True. But I’ve gone winter-winter-summer-winter-winter since 2008 so it’s well deserved at this stage.
October 11th, 2010 at 2:26 am
Actually, no, make that winter-winter-winter-summer-winter-winter.
October 11th, 2010 at 4:45 am
In the US midwest we get doubly hot summers and doubly cold winters. We also get yellow and white pages whether we want them or not. Some things are the same the world over I think.
October 11th, 2010 at 4:27 pm
Did you write that Butler?
October 11th, 2010 at 4:58 pm
http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/features/2009/0916/1224254638296.html
If I was going to start stealing content, I’d steal something more exciting than an article about the feckin’ phone book!
How did the big meeting go?
October 13th, 2010 at 4:45 pm
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