CommanderFrank
Cat Can't Scratch It
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The speculation about the demise of the telephone book is now becoming a reality. Phone companies across the nation are requesting state permission to discontinue the blanket delivery of the environmentally unfriendly phonebook.
Does anyone care about the white pages anymore? Robert Thompson, a "pop culture professor" at Syracuse, told the AP that "anybody who doesn't have access to some kind of online way to look things up now is probably too old to be able to read the print in the white pages anyway."