Pearls Before Swine by Stephan Pastis for September 28, 2016

The real funny thing is how much thinner the phone book is now compared to 15 years ago.

what’s next: the kids laughing at a dial-up Internet connection?

The real purpose of yellow pages is for the publisher to make lots of money selling ads.

Mom, what’s a “landline” phone?

Land lines are very effective if the power goes out and your cell depletes. They’ll have to pry mine out of my cold, dead hands. That might be a cliche, but I love my land line!

Thing is, we no longer have a reliable way to find people’s phone numbers.

Funny thing, last time I got a phone book delivered, I went to the drawer to put it away…and found 2 previous year’s worth, still in their wrappers! Guess I don’t use them anymore.

Is there a way to opt out of getting phone books delivered to you?

Speed dialing killed the phone book.

Used to get ONE phonebook a year when I needed one. Today I get 2 or 3 and don’t even look at them. Waste of paper.

You know every time items from the past that young people do not know about comes up it shows the failure of the education system. That is sad :-(

Just smack the kids with the phonebook and see how much they laugh.

NOW? You were old WAAAYYYY before now!

In the heart of the Appalachian Mountains, cell phone reception is very spotty, even from one end of the house to the other. A landline is essential . I would imagine it’s even worse in the Rockies.

I haven’t used a phone book in at least 20 years.

They still deliver them here, to the door that nobody in this neighborhood ever uses or in most cases even sees (the parking is near the back door and the directory people insist of leaving the books in front)..Then, two or three months later, someone from the homeowners’ association runs around with their little clipboard and sends letters to everyone threatening a fine for “unsightly debris around the front door”.

we have our landline for out going emergency calls only…like, Dial 911! Oh Crap where did I leave me phone??? We always know where the landline will be.

As far as the phone book, I can’t hardly read the darn things with these older eyes.

Living on the edge of Portland, OR, phone books are rather useless; any company/service I need is more likely to be in another town than the one I live in. I’m glad I don’t have to go to the library every time I need a drain unclogged.

I still know most neighbors’ phone numbers by heart in the rural community where I live, but their numbers are no longer in the directory since most of them switched to a wireless service and kept their number. This year, for the first time, our phone book didn’t even try to have a residential directory. All it has are business numbers and a yellow pages. I don’t even know where it is because I never use it.

You don’t have a car?

20 years ago, the Phoenix Metropolitan Area Yellow Pages was 2 full-sized volumes — A thru M and N thru Z. Over the years it shrunk to about 1/2 the size of a single volume. I don’t think they even print them anymore. I haven’t seen one in a couple of years.

What’s next, switchboards? I have a rotary phone and that sucker can double as a weapon. Has to weigh five pounds and would concuss anyone it hit.

At my house we have an annual two step phone book ritual. Step 1 – remove plastic. Step 2 – Place book in recycling bin.

My b-i-l is a firefighter. He’s required to have a landline so that he can still be reached if something goes boom with cellular service (or even just if his phone dies).

They make great doorstops.

Be glad if you still have a working copper-wire landline; they’re phasing them out in my area; Verizon is going to Wi-Fi instead (where Fios isn’t yet available).

Nothing like the good old Yellow Pages!

xxx

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Whadya mean, “power goes out”? You folks don’t have your solar cells up?

what is funny is to imagine people doing stuff these days without internet, lets see these kids look up phone numbers without internet, lets see them twitter without internet or facebook….example someone twittering without internet, would be walking along spouting out short sentences to all those around to see if anyone will follow them…they sure would look crazy.

Now imagine facebook, someone carrying a bunch of pictures and posters trying to show off their pictures (probably a bunch of selfies) and posting quotes or sharing things they found.

Just saying, the internet took something that most would consider crazy and made crazy normal.

I have a landline for use at home, a cell for when I’m not at home, and a phone book so I can look up the power company’s number when there’s an outage.:I am invincible!

I have a landline only, and being somewhat a loner make very few phone calls ever; my phone acts almost exclusively as a receiver. I still get annual, ever-smaller Yellow and Business Pages phonebooks, but rarely use them….

“Dad, why do you say you’re dialing a phone number when all you’re doing is pushing buttons?”

Grandpa, she asked, what is an “Operator”?

Land lines got more and more expensive and now “lifeline”(E phone service for the indigent) is going celluar. The government wants it that way. They can track your location and it is easier to listen in or read texts(because of phone privacy rights).

So true…. So true… I wonder if the grand kids will be laughing about smart phones… ?

Can’t you charge your phone in your car?

I know people who claim to never have opened a book.

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hah jokes on you i have a wireless phone attached to a landline