January 27, 2010
In my last blog, I went on and on about the FOUR- yes, freakin’ FOUR- phone books that arrived at my house. Well today I got a fifth. Who in the world needs FIVE phone books? This one was the Ambassador Yellow Pages, and it may actually have been the real yellow pages since A- it was all spelled out in two words, not an easily trademarked one (yellowpages) and B- it had that old “let your fingers do the walking” logo. So I did.
I picked it up in my fingers and walked it straight out to the recycling bin.
Does anyone even look in that book anymore? And who would look in four yellow pages? They all have the same information! At least the cosmos had the right sense to send me only one white pages, but why why oh why did I get four competing yellow pages? How can anyone make any money from that? How can I make money from that?
I wanted to complain and ironically I could not find the telephone book’s telephone number.
UPDATE here!
Mr. Blog's Tepid Ride 
does anyone look at them: only about 13 BILLION times a year are those books used.
why 4 different books: Why do we need thousands of lawyers? Why so many makers of TV’s and pc’s? Do we really need all the people blogging who do?? Can’t we just have a few.
you want to make some money: start you own book and sell advertising?
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“why 4 different books: Why do we need thousands of lawyers?”
Short answer- we don’t.
Interesting that you should compare phone books to lawyers. I happen to agree with you. Both are mostly useless and easily disposable. Too many phone books? How about too many lawyers? Watch some daytime TV. In NYC, you see commercials for the lawyer in the cowboy hat, the lawyer with the old-fashioned (and just plain silly) waxed handle-bar moustache, the woman who shouts her own last name, and a couple of lawyers advertising with cartoons. There are three firms that use old actors in their commercials and where can you find them all? In the phone book.
When you compare the phone book with an industry that is consistently ranked among the lowest trusted and most despised I can only assume you are trying to prove my own point. “Kill all the lawyers”? First we should recycle all the phone books.
BTW- many lawyers go on to become politicians, who are perhaps the only group ranked lower than lawyers. What is the difference between a lawyer and a politician? When a lawyer becomes a politician he takes his name out of the phone book.
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“Do we really need all the people blogging who do?? Can’t we just have a few.”
The difference is that you didn’t wake up to find 5 copies of my blog dumped on your front porch. You actively came to me. If you hadn’t clicked on a link you never would have seen this blog.
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Well Ken, I hope you’ve seen this:
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That is craziness!! Why do they send those out anymore!?? They should only send them if requested. IMO
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To be fair, I did keep one white and one yellow pages, but I still tossed out three other phone books- that’s around 2,000 sheets of paper. That’s a shameful waste.
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