On Sunday, prior to Josh and I leaving for the Minnesota Wild hockey game, I noticed that we had a plastic bag on our front doorstep. While the majority of my neighbors would step over this object for days or weeks, but I felt compelled to pick it up immediately realizing that it was a care package from the “local” phone company.Now, I haven’t opened a phone book in at least 7 or 8 years for sure but more than likely it’s been well over 10. Phone books are a dead medium and one that I really find almost completely useless, well, expect for ripping them in half.
This time, instead of going straight for the recycling bin, I took the time to take it out of the ice covered plastic bag because it was quite a bit heavier than the others I have pitched… After cursing myself for unsheathing the book in the living room and having the ice drop all over the carpet, I realized that this phone book was a hard cover edition! After talking to Kim about it later, I could only assume that FrontierPAGES is really trying to get people to pay more attention to their last ditch effort at making a dead “technology” viable again.
To be honest, I did open the book to see the white page listings and found them to be quite a bit larger than I remembered. You would think after 10 years my eyesight would be worse than it was back then but, sure enough, the text appeared to be leaping off the pages w/o the need for a magnifying glass!
I closed the book, took some pictures, and noticed on the cover that this was a “limited edition” hardcover edition. Ooh, a collectors’ item! Just remember, don’t recycle it until after 2009! Sorry FrontierPAGES but other than being immortalized here on LazyLightning, you’re not going to survive in our house after next week’s recycling pickup.
Do any of you prefer using a phone book to the Internet?
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March 12th, 2008 at 3:35 pm
Well obviously they are trying to challenge you with the ripping phone books in half stunt. You want ours too? One for practice and one for showing off?
March 12th, 2008 at 3:39 pm
Mrs M,
I don’t think I’d be able to pull off the stunt with the hardcover! I think they did it on purpose so I couldn’t :(
Bill
March 15th, 2008 at 5:10 am
Yes I use the phone book. Any many people still do. And yes I use the internet too. But I find the phone book is much faster for things I look for locally. I think you give the internet too much credit.
March 16th, 2008 at 12:56 am
I wouldn’t use the phone book if I had the choice, but there’s been times where I’ve had to, like when my home didn’t have power for a couple days last year or I’ve been out in the middle of nowhere without access to the Internet. Plus, there’s still some people that don’t have computers or Internet connections (though that number is dropping). So, it’s not a dead technology just yet.
That said, a hardcover phone book is just dumb, and I don’t like having to get one even if you don’t want one.
April 2nd, 2008 at 5:33 pm
I like the the hard cover phonebook my paper back phonebook rips half thru the year. I still have last years hard cover book plus my 3 yr old uses it a step stool so she can reach the sink to brush her teeth.
April 2nd, 2008 at 5:59 pm
Ryan,
Are you sure you aren’t astroturfing in favor of one of your company’s revenue sources?
April 4th, 2008 at 1:16 pm
I maybe but at least my money i pay for my phone bill gives me something i can use instead of seeing 100’s of millions of dollars to combat the SLowski’s for TV comercials.
April 4th, 2008 at 1:19 pm
heh, thanks for the laugh Ryan.
April 4th, 2008 at 3:51 pm
I lost track of Ryan’s point amid the horrendous grammar and punctuation, but he mentioned the Slowskys commercials for Comcast which, in my opinion, are some of the most hilarious ads out there right now. It takes a LOT for me to not fast forward through commercials.
“Maybe you should take your lecture elsewhere..to a convention of people that like lectures.” http://www.slowskys.com, the “Mailman” one.
Priceless.
April 4th, 2008 at 3:53 pm
Well, it certainly fits the bill here, thanks MSPD ;)