do you use your phone book?????

[alocispepraluger102]

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[JSngry]

Yes. Regularly. It's the one book I still read.

[alocispepraluger102]

  On 11/22/2011 at 9:32 PM, JSngry said:

Yes. Regularly. It's the one book I still read.

[JSngry]

Haven't you heard? I'm anti-intellectual and don't read books.

I thought everybody knew by now.

But seriously, I'm still attached to my land line. Don't like being "reachable" 24/7, and besides, in this house, people still leave home w/o their cells and/or misplace them for days at a time and/or once in a blue moon have them stolen. All of those scenarios become less logistically impossible to cope with with the land line still in place. And sometimes, often, actually, I'll be sitting in the house somewhere and want to know where a business is or what somebody's phone number is, and it's easier to just pick up the phone book and look than it is to go all cyberistical just to find a damn phone number.

Sometimes the shortest distance between two point is still analog.

Edited November 22, 2011 by JSngry

[mikeweil]

The local phone book, yes (although my number is not listed, I have no idea why ...), especially when looking for a craftsman or special services - for numbers from other cities, I use the internet search teleauskunft.de - that's about all I need

[Shawn]

I haven't opened a phone book in years (although I did use a couple to hold up a broken futon frame).

[papsrus]

It goes straight into the recycling bin. A total waste of paper, for me. I can find any phone number and/or address and/or business I need to in seconds on the internets, along with customer reviews and all that jazz (for whatever they're worth).

[JSngry]

Ah yes, online customer reviews...people who you don't know if they are who they claim to be talking about things about which you have no idea if they share your standards/tastes or not..

Sometimes, anyway. But I've encountered enough b.s. (especially with restaurants) to where I don't even bother except as a supplement. Word-of-mouth from people I trust is still what I look for whenever possible.

[papsrus]

Yeah, I pretty much disregard them, too.

I just assume with, say, car dealerships, there has to be a healthy dose of 5-star ratings written by the sales staff. But with, say, dentists, tastes and standards don't really matter so much. Good or bad service is easier to gauge.

[JSngry]

Yeah, but....a dentist can be a cold fish with limited social skills (mine is kind of like that) and still be a helluva good dentist (as he is). "Personality" is too often confused with quality of service, at least that's been my experience.

Then again, all I really want out of a dentist is a hot hygenist, some good nitrous., and for the fillings to not fall out. Other than that, hey.

[papsrus]

  On 11/22/2011 at 11:38 PM, JSngry said:

Then again, all I really want out of a dentist is a hot hygenist, some good nitrous., and for the fillings to not fall out. Other than that, hey.

Me too. Now that's a rec I'd get behind! ... Don't make me wait too long, get me in, dose me up, clean the old choppers, file the insurance paperwork for me and get me out.

I walk into a plush office with all kinds of leather furniture in the waiting room or that "designer" touch, fancy equipment all over the place and then the dentist starts recommending all kinds of work ... I'm suspicious right away.

[Noj]

[JSngry]

I also stay away from those sprawling "clincs" that have locations conveniently located everyfuckingwhere. Went to one one time, got a shitty, halfassed cleaning, a generic exam, and a strong nudge to sign up for some whitening program which was "usually" covered by insurance. Total factory, the place was, not what I want from any kind of medical practice.

We've been using the same guy for about 20 years now, a small practice, no partners, been at the same location forever, cute-enough (and highly competent) hygenists, and a stable staff. Offers the cosmetic stuff but does not in any way pimp it. And good nitrous for when I need it.

Yet, the guy has had virtually no online presence until very recently, and even now you can tell his heart's not in it. He's happy having a neighborhood-based family practice and building his business slowly, from generation to generation and through word of mouth.

My kind of guy!

[thedwork]

every once in a while. it can be useful especially if you're not sure "who" you're calling, but do know "what."

[Christiern]

I haven't used a physical phone book in many years.

I bet Phil Schaap has the ones Errol Garner used to sit on.

Any Guadaynino in the Mansfirld book?

[JSngry]

  On 11/23/2011 at 12:46 AM, thedwork said:

every once in a while. it can be useful especially if you're not sure "who" you're calling, but do know "what."

This is a very cryptic comment...

[Jazzmoose]

I don't have a phone book. I'm too old to live on pizza now; why would I need one?

[JSngry]

  On 11/23/2011 at 3:15 AM, Jazzmoose said:

I don't have a phone book. I'm too old to live on pizza now; why would I need one?

Because now that you don't live on pizza, you might need a plumber?

[.:.impossible]

Wouldn't you just ask your neighbor if you needed a plumber?

[JSngry]

Not if they weren't home and/or were asleep...

[JohnS]

I'd like to keep it "just in case". But my wife insists it goes straight in the recyling bin - so that's where it goes.

[Jazzmoose]

  On 11/23/2011 at 3:32 AM, JSngry said:

  On 11/23/2011 at 3:15 AM, Jazzmoose said:

I don't have a phone book. I'm too old to live on pizza now; why would I need one?

Because now that you don't live on pizza, you might need a plumber?

I have google; don't need a phone book.

[JSngry]

The implication was that a steady diet of pizza...ah....clogs you up, not the plumbing, and now that...eh, never mind.

[cih]

When I was a child, exceptionally strong men used to tear them in half (phone books, not pizzas)

[BruceH]

I'm still all about the land line, very old-fashioned that way, but haven't used the phone book in a long time. If I need a number I either use information (on my landline telephone) or look it up online. Or ask a friend or relative: "Hey, do you know so-and-so's phone #?"