San Francisco may be 1st city to cut Yellow Pages

Started by garbon, May 11, 2011, 10:54:43 AM

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garbon

Quote from: Ed Anger on May 11, 2011, 03:48:14 PM
I keep my phone books. When my power was out for 3 days lats winter, I was able to maintain communications with pizza joints.

Why would you need more than one though? When I moved to SF, I took one but when they came around next year, I really didn't need a new one. My local pizza places didn't pop in and out of existence so quickly.
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Ed Anger

Quote from: garbon on May 11, 2011, 03:52:29 PM
Quote from: Ed Anger on May 11, 2011, 03:48:14 PM
I keep my phone books. When my power was out for 3 days lats winter, I was able to maintain communications with pizza joints.

Why would you need more than one though? When I moved to SF, I took one but when they came around next year, I really didn't need a new one. My local pizza places didn't pop in and out of existence so quickly.

Sheer laziness. I toss the new ones on top of the stack.
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derspiess

Quote from: Ed Anger on May 11, 2011, 03:48:14 PM
I keep my phone books. When my power was out for 3 days lats winter, I was able to maintain communications with pizza joints.

Refrigerator magnets :contract:
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Quote from: derspiess on May 11, 2011, 04:12:18 PM
Quote from: Ed Anger on May 11, 2011, 03:48:14 PM
I keep my phone books. When my power was out for 3 days lats winter, I was able to maintain communications with pizza joints.

Refrigerator magnets :contract:

My phone books don't fall to the floor.
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Josquius

Quote from: Ed Anger on May 11, 2011, 03:48:14 PM
I keep my phone books. When my power was out for 3 days lats winter, I was able to maintain communications with pizza joints.
They don't bombard you with little menus through the letter box (/in the mail box) over there?
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Richard Hakluyt

Quote from: Tyr on May 11, 2011, 04:38:38 PM
Quote from: Ed Anger on May 11, 2011, 03:48:14 PM
I keep my phone books. When my power was out for 3 days lats winter, I was able to maintain communications with pizza joints.
They don't bombard you with little menus through the letter box (/in the mail box) over there?

They do, but unlike derspiess, Ed has not yet mastered the advanced technology of the fridge magnet.

OTOH he no doubt maintains a proscription list of unsatisfactory pizza joints  :contract:

Ed Anger

Quote from: Richard Hakluyt on May 11, 2011, 05:04:41 PM
Quote from: Tyr on May 11, 2011, 04:38:38 PM
Quote from: Ed Anger on May 11, 2011, 03:48:14 PM
I keep my phone books. When my power was out for 3 days lats winter, I was able to maintain communications with pizza joints.
They don't bombard you with little menus through the letter box (/in the mail box) over there?

They do, but unlike derspiess, Ed has not yet mastered the advanced technology of the fridge magnet.

OTOH he no doubt maintains a proscription list of unsatisfactory pizza joints  :contract:

Domino's head the list. Dominos delenda est.
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HVC

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Hubris must be punished. Severely.

garbon

Quote from: HVC on May 11, 2011, 05:14:15 PM
So the ads lie? Dominoes still sucks? :(:P

Actually, it is way better than it used to be.
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I drank because I wanted to drown my sorrows, but now the damned things have learned to swim.

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sbr

Quote from: Ed Anger on May 11, 2011, 03:48:14 PM
I keep my phone books. When my power was out for 3 days lats winter, I was able to maintain communications with pizza joints.

I only order pizza from one place and their number is easy enough to remember I haven't had to look it up in years: 538-3800

Razgovory

Quote from: garbon on May 11, 2011, 05:16:46 PM
Quote from: HVC on May 11, 2011, 05:14:15 PM
So the ads lie? Dominoes still sucks? :(:P

Actually, it is way better than it used to be.

They stopped letting the Noid shit on the pizzas.
I've given it serious thought. I must scorn the ways of my family, and seek a Japanese woman to yield me my progeny. He shall live in the lands of the east, and be well tutored in his sacred trust to weave the best traditions of Japan and the Sacred South together, until such time as he (or, indeed his house, which will periodically require infusion of both Southern and Japanese bloodlines of note) can deliver to the South it's independence, either in this world or in space.  -Lettow April of 2011

Raz is right. -MadImmortalMan March of 2017

dps

Regardless of the need or lack of need for phonebooks in general and the yellow pages in particular, I don't think it's really any of the governments business whether or not they are being distrubuted.


Caliga

Quote from: garbon on May 11, 2011, 05:16:46 PM
Quote from: HVC on May 11, 2011, 05:14:15 PM
So the ads lie? Dominoes still sucks? :(:P

Actually, it is way better than it used to be.
That's cool, but at some point they will need to increase profit margins so will cut back on quality/quantity of ingredients again and it will once again suck.  Papa John's goes through cycles like that all the time.  In the case of Papa John's, it has to do with whether or not John Schnatter is actively involved in managing the chain.  He has repeatedly stepped into and out of an active management role over the years, and when they're in a "Schnatter is hands-on now" phase, quality improves but profits drop.  Then the board gets angry, so quality goes back down and Schnatter gets mad and 'retires'.  Rinse, repeat.
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