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Please Stop
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Clinically Insane
Join Date: Jun 2001
Location: Chicago, Bang! Bang!
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This is sitting here for garbage pickup BTW.
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Posting Junkie
Join Date: Mar 2004
Location: UK
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Step 1: Dressed as a ninja pile them up as high as possible.
Step 2: Have a friend coincidentally film you as the pile collapses on you causing "injury".
Step 3: I think you may have guessed step 3 by now.
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I have plenty of more important things to do, if only I could bring myself to do them....
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Clinically Insane
Join Date: Nov 1999
Location: 888500128, C3, 2nd soft.
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I stopped picking up phone books years ago. I'm slightly surprised that they still print too many of them.
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Clinically Insane
Join Date: Jun 2001
Location: Chicago, Bang! Bang!
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It's been at least 8 years for me, and it's not like the things have maintained a constant level of marginal utility. They're easily an order of magnitude more useless now than 8 years ago.
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Clinically Insane
Join Date: Jun 2001
Location: Chicago, Bang! Bang!
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I had completely forgotten about this story.
My apartment is set up sort of weird. People tend to think my front door enters into some type of lobby deal, which means people off the street trying to open it is a relatively common occurrence. A minor irritation assuming I've remembered to lock the front door.
So, I was in the can, burning a mule...
I barely need to finish the story here. You can do the math.
The twist is, after I collect myself, greet him, tell him I don't want the yellow pages, and start ushering him towards the door from my living room, he turns to me and asks "can I get a business card?"
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Administrator
Join Date: Apr 2001
Location: San Antonio TX USA
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They drop off new phone books at my front door. I check to see if there's anything important with them (CD with the listings like AT&T did recently, etc.) and then I recycle them. The "phone book" is a large, bulky version of all that paper spam you get in your mail box, since it's really all intended to be advertising anyway. So I treat it as such and recycle it. Hey, the paper spammers are supporting the Postal Service, and the phone book people are employing all those schleps that drop off phone books, so the least I can do is cooperate enough to keep 'em paying people, right?
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Glenn -----OTR/L, MOT, Tx
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Moderator
Join Date: Jun 2000
Location: inside 128, north of 90
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We still have a paper phone book, it gets used - rarely, but yes. Sometimes when googling something (shoe repair + my town for instance) you'll get all kinds of wrong results- wrong town, shoe stores, fake pages that are just linkbot spam, etc. The book at least is more accurate for my local area. And it has coupons.
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Junior Member
Join Date: Mar 2012
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ohh we still have that but we don't use it anymore.. i guess we should also put that to our garbage..
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Clinically Insane
Join Date: Dec 2000
Location: Caught in a web of deceit.
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Crumpled up pages from these go well with the kindling in my wood fireplace.
Came in handy last year because I was heating the house with my gas and wood fireplace. We were doing some renovations, so I didn't want to use the forced air furnace as it would blow construction dust around the house.
Other than that I don't think we've used our phone books for anything else since we moved into this house 5 years ago. Well, maybe once or twice when we first moved in.
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Addicted to MacNN
Join Date: May 2001
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When a phone book shows up on my doorstep it immediately goes right into the recycle bin. I wonder how many trees are still being killed to produce these things?
OAW
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Addicted to MacNN
Join Date: Feb 2001
Location: Your Anus
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We still get about 3 different local papers delivered to our house. I've called to have them stop, which usually works for a while and then they start coming again.
I've trained my two year old to recycle them though. Whenever he sees one he grabs it and proudly runs it back to the recycle bin.
What this?
A newspaper?
What do we do with a newspaper?
Recycle it!
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My sig is 1 pixel too big.
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Addicted to MacNN
Join Date: Nov 1999
Location: Madison, WI
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I have a collection of them in a closet. I hope to make something out of them some day.
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Moderator
Join Date: Jun 2000
Location: inside 128, north of 90
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I also get a Sunday paper.
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Clinically Insane
Join Date: Dec 1999
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Originally Posted by Eug
Crumpled up pages from these go well with the kindling in my wood fireplace.
I do the same thing. Also use them for my charcoal chimney for when I BBQ.
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"…I contend that we are both atheists. I just believe in one fewer god than
you do. When you understand why you dismiss all the other possible gods,
you will understand why I dismiss yours." - Stephen F. Roberts
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Clinically Insane
Join Date: Jun 2001
Location: Chicago, Bang! Bang!
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Originally Posted by olePigeon
I do the same thing. Also use them for my charcoal chimney for when I BBQ.
As if print media wasn't taking on the chin already, now the shit ain't even worth keeping around so you can burn it.
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Moderator
Join Date: Jun 2000
Location: inside 128, north of 90
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I rolled up a newspaper today to do battle with a bug.
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Clinically Insane
Join Date: Jun 2001
Location: Chicago, Bang! Bang!
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I have a gat:
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Moderator
Join Date: Aug 2001
Location: Nobletucky
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We get a new book dropped at our mailbox. We use it fairly often. I live in a relatively small city and it's a lot quicker to scan a section of the yellow pages than it is to wade through a Google search.
The adoption agency my wife works at places ads in the books all across the state. They get a good number of new birth mothers thanks to the ads.
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Clinically Insane
Join Date: Jun 2001
Location: Chicago, Bang! Bang!
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I could see that. Around here, Google is creep you out good.
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Posting Junkie
Join Date: Mar 2004
Location: UK
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Originally Posted by subego
So, I was in the can, burning a mule...
...he turns to me and asks "can I get a business card?"
He clearly had some mules he needed you to burn for him.
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I have plenty of more important things to do, if only I could bring myself to do them....
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