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The Picard Maneuver@lemmy.world to Funny: Home of the Haha@lemmy.world · 1 year ago

How Ketchum, Idaho used to list Adam West in the phone book

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How Ketchum, Idaho used to list Adam West in the phone book

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The Picard Maneuver@lemmy.world to Funny: Home of the Haha@lemmy.world · 1 year ago
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    What’s a phone book?

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      It’s like manual DNS for phone numbers.

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      Before the internet there were phonebooks for your city and/or region which listed household and business phone numbers among other info. This is where the term “yellow pages” came from which was the section for businesses categorized by type of business (“crime fighting” here) .

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      You’ve never seen a phone book?

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        Yes I have, just trolling the other Millenials.

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          Get off my lawn

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            We’re millennials. We don’t have lawns.

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          That’s a relief lol

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      It’s an adjustably thick paper construct used for leveling uneven furniture.

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      I think it’s another name for those folding smartphones. They kind of look like books.

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