“My copy of the Los Angeles Yellow Pages I stole from the Beverly Hilton Hotel three years ago. It has been a fund of extraordinary material, as surrealist in its way as Dali’s biography”. -J.G. Ballard Perhaps you’re old enough to rember the Yellow Pages, that business directory and pre-digital doorstop that pretty much everyone used to track down retail services, down to the most obscure kind.
Back in the Seinfeld days we at Book store once phoned up Chapters and asked if they had a coffee table book on coffee table books. A bit lame really. Back in England when in an off-the-wall theater company called Crumpets our fearless leader and producer, Peter, told a prankster tale of phoning up random people pretending to be a line engineer, explaining that they were going to test the line in just a moment, and that when it rang again it was vitally important not to answer. Of course when he did ring again and eventually they did answer he would pretend to scream in pain, like he had just been electrocuted.
You naughty thing....a thing with an admirable imagination however and a 'way with words.'
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The people of Differently-abled Creek, CO just called. They want their town’s name back.
Back in the Seinfeld days we at Book store once phoned up Chapters and asked if they had a coffee table book on coffee table books. A bit lame really. Back in England when in an off-the-wall theater company called Crumpets our fearless leader and producer, Peter, told a prankster tale of phoning up random people pretending to be a line engineer, explaining that they were going to test the line in just a moment, and that when it rang again it was vitally important not to answer. Of course when he did ring again and eventually they did answer he would pretend to scream in pain, like he had just been electrocuted.
You actually managed to have fun! As for me, laughing out loud on a Sunday morning gets my vote...
What else is on your politically incorrect bucket list??