Both it and the B & W printer cartridge were tucked inside the front door tonight. Now home looks almost like work, all I need is a 22″ wide screen monitor and both places will seamlessly meld into one thrilling computing experience.
Monday at work there was a giant pile of new Aiken phone books in the mail room and everyone had a shiny new edition in their mail slot. Of course, as I am compelled to do each July, I screamed inside my head, whilst imagining myself self jumping up and down and running along the hall like Navin R. Johnson.
Navin R. Johnson: The new phone book’s here! The new phone book’s here!
Harry Hartounian: Boy, I wish I could get that excited about nothing.
Navin R. Johnson: Nothing? Are you kidding? Page 73 – Johnson, Navin R.! I’m somebody now! Millions of people look at this book everyday! This is the kind of spontaneous publicity – your name in print – that makes people. I’m in print! Things are going to start happening to me now.
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You aren’t the only one that recalls that scene when the new phone books arrive. I’ve done it for years. Scarey isn’t it?
Ummm…what’s a phone book? They’re kind of like WhitePages.com…right? 🙂
Your best buddy got an extra one in his mail box yesterday, he gets another one today plus all the junk mail I can find.
Rae – What’s even scarier is that nearly everyone I have mentioned getting a new phone book to, have quoted that Steve Martin line from that movie. People used to quote Shakespeare…
CT – I think that is what it’s like, but I wouldn’t know, never cracked it open, I just use it to squish
roachespalmetto bugs.Mark – You can stop with the phone books, he is going to be on vacation all next week. The junk mail is a nice touch though, it’ll take him an extra long time to go through all that when he gets back.
Isn’t it amazing to see your name in a phone book? Or the modern equivalent, to google your name and see the real you near the top of the list?
Maybe that’s the way it should be explained now, using google…
(P.S. Whitepages.com doesn’t work to well with cell phones and since home phones are so passe’…..