Monday
Dec292008
Can Anyone Who Is *Still* Using actual Phonebooks Raise Their Fucking Hand?
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Erica | Monday, December 29, 2008 at 12:19AM
Erica | Monday, December 29, 2008 at 12:19AM 
Cause I just don't get it. I don't get why this shit gets delivered to our bldg year after year and I don't get how in this age of "go green!" some environmental group hasn't jumped on one of the oldest, most retarded and most wasteful practices in the history of the modern printed page.
Oh wait! These phone books are "eco friendly!"
My bad.
tagged PSlope WTF, go green
PSlope WTF, go green 
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Reader Comments (5)
Publishing phone books is a for-profit enterprise. It isn't done for the benefit of the consumer.
That's why there is more than one company doing it and that's why you get those useless little neighborhood-oriented editions as well. There's big money in yellow-pages advertising.
Too F'in funny. My thoughts exactly. Several phone books have been sitting on our front stoop for over a week. No one seems to want to touch them with a 10 foot pole.
Sometimes people need an interrogation device to inlflict maximum pain to someone's midsection without leaving evidence of scars.
@Danny - a bag of oranges would work.
Anonymous is correct. I know I'm taking you too literally and you were just doing a "What's the deal with airline food?" about phone books, but if you really, really want to stop them, tell every place you shop that you don't use the yellow pages, and get everyone you know to do the same. It costs money to be in every one of them, and if a couple hundred business in Brooklyn decide to not spend the money on it, the books would get thinner, and maybe one or two of them would go belly-up.
@David, but the phone books are free, right there in your foyer, and you're doing your part by not wasting produce. Seriously though I can see phone books still being of use to the less computer literate, older generation who still rely on print.