When have you last, legitimately, use a phone book?
I think for me it might have been 11+ years ago.
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When have you last, legitimately, use a phone book?
I think for me it might have been 11+ years ago.
I really can't remember. Over 15 years for sure. The phone co. leaves a pile of them at the bottom of the hill at the mailboxes and they just sit there for weeks on end. What a waste.
When they hung in phone booths at Stapleton airport.
Last Tuesday. I was doing some stuff on my Moms computer. She has a couple big ones under the desk to prop her feet on. They actually are pretty comfortable for that.
Been quite a few years. They go straight from my front porch right into the trash can.
Probably used it within the last month or so.
4 years ago when I gathered a dozen or so of the FULL Size ones (which you don't find anymore), soaked them in water for a few days, and shot them with self defense rounds. I'll find the pic of the hollow points expanding. It's not ballistic gel but it does work and was fun to see.
1987. No really.
Yesterday in my charcoal chimney
I use them in my bullet/pellet trap.
sent from my electronic ball and chain
friday. I can look up something specific faster in the book, than online.
I used one last weekend to make sure the garage door would open if something got caught under it before it was fully closed. The door worked properly.
Just this morning as underlayment for the straw bale potato gardening.Quote:
Originally Posted by Irving
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You also sit on phone books to reach the steering wheel.Quote:
Originally Posted by kwando
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About two years ago- Comcast was doing its typical "outages" business and I needed an address and number.
Did you know that local phone books had poetry and interesting little factoids scattered within the pages? I found myself browsing the book far longer than I expected.
I used a whole box full of them yesterday as a bullet stop behind a target in my basement yesterday.
Same here.Quote:
Originally Posted by ray1970
About 2 months ago, I legitimately used several phone books and about 10 inches of stacked magazines as a backstop for some testing. Nothing made it through the 4th phone book.
edit: I posted before reading any other responses, and it is clear that great minds think alike!
What's a phone book?...
Used one last weekend to start a camp fire.
Does chucking them in trash count? I think I used one in my twenties to keep my TV stand level when one side broke.
Last Sunday, regularly use it.
Didn't even have one for my Granddaughter to use as a booster seat, recently. From the porch to the recycle bin for at least five years.
To sit on or hit someone with?Quote:
Originally Posted by Irving
I keep phone books for target use. Probably last used one four or five years ago for that purpose, and have been just chucking them in the recycle since then, and have a few in the garage I haven't recycled or shot yet.
Last used one to actually look someone/thing up maybe ten years ago.
I use them for fire starting
I use it to look up a number every now and then; the last time was within the last month or so. My parents don't use any kind of computing device of any kind including a cell phone so they use them. My sister sometimes uses a computer but they use phone books for everything.
FYI, phone books not leaving bruises is a myth, like dry land.
Considering I just finished building a phone book and uploaded it to the printer last week I guess you could say I "used" a phone book a week ago.
2 years ago. I used it to prop up my desk (sometimes when coworkers would sit on my desk, the corner wasn't very secure so it'd start to dip. I put the book on top of my cabinet under the desk to where now the weight was going onto the cabinet, thus supporting the whole thing).
I'm pretty sure it was the summer before I turned 18 and my friend Derek and I looked in the local yellow pages for "escort services". We tried calling a couple of them, but they were quick to tell we were immature kids, so we resorted to prank calling a couple more of them before getting into some other kind of mischief.
Just so everyone knows, you can contact your telephone company and ask to stop delivery of them... They're happy to not print them, they are required by regulations to provide them unless you specifically decline.Quote:
Originally Posted by sandman76
Now THAT's useful information. Thanks.Quote:
Originally Posted by 68Charger
I called 'em up, told them I don't want any books ever again. So far, two years without having to toss them in the trash. There were some years I'd get 2-3 copies of the same damn phone book because the ones distributing them don't care where they're dumped.
We dropped our land line about 7yrs ago and we still get phone books ever year, they just throw them out at every driveway.Quote:
Originally Posted by 68Charger
I don't have a land line for voice, but have DSL... and their system makes no differentiation- had to tell them not to deliver for the DSL line, either.Quote:
Originally Posted by Buff
What about cases where you don't have a telephone company and never have had one in Colorado in the 12 years you've lived here, but they still deliver one to my door and another pallet of them to our neighborhood club house, every year....Quote:
Originally Posted by 68Charger
that's a sub-contractor problem, probably... so your house was never wired? likely you have a telephone company, you just don't use them. Remember they're a public regulated utility.Quote:
Originally Posted by Sawin
Yesterday, I'm old fashioned. [blaster]