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It's smart. I've lived in college towns before, and yellowpage delivery day results in one of two things - garbage cans filled to the brim, or drinking games ce
by jjcm 16y ago
It's smart. I've lived in college towns before, and yellowpage delivery day results in one of two things - garbage cans filled to the brim, or drinking games centered around towers of yellowpages. Younger demographics simply aren't going to flip through a paper index when they can find the info they want on yelp/google/etc. If SF is at a point where they've embraced a digital distribution of resources and information to the point where the Yellow Pages are no longer necessary, then they'd be foolish not to stop the distribution of them (or to at least make them opt-in instead of opt-out, as described here). That said, I'd love to see some empirical evidence as to what percentage of the SF population still uses them.
- stcredzero 16y agoMaking the Yellow Pages opt-in makes it easier to gather that data!
- simonsarris 16y agoYellowpages were great in college for eating off of. Its basically a giant set of paper plates and/or placemats. Use, rip off the top page or two, throw away!
- Joakal 16y agoThe yellowpages papers seem to crumble so easily and the ink can get into things. Why use it with food?
- JonnieCache 16y agoWhat on earth were you eating? This is the oddest thing I have seen on the internet today.
- simonsarris 16y agoThink of it with pizza and sandwiches. As in: Bake bead, fry eggs with mushrooms/whatever. Place fried egg atop bread. Eat over phone book instead of eating over plate. Terrible mess from egg drippings? Rip out pages and throw away! You don't even have to let the food you eat come into contact with the book itself if you don't want to.
- JonnieCache 16y agoThat makes more sense, but it's still kinda nasty. It would however have the advantage that you could monitor your rate of egg consumption by examining the first letters of the services advertised on the top page.