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The Picard Maneuver@lemmy.worldM to memes@lemmy.world · 2 years ago

And the city would even place them at booths all over for the public's doxxing convenience

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And the city would even place them at booths all over for the public's doxxing convenience

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The Picard Maneuver@lemmy.worldM to memes@lemmy.world · 2 years ago
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    Yellow was for business. The giant white book was for people.

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      I mostly remember them being combined into one big yellow book, but separated by page color (yellow for business, white for personal).

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        Wasn’t part of it pink too? I can remember what that bit was for.

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          That was what we used before Grindr.

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            The paper cuts were the best part.

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          I don’t remember pink, but we had blue pages for government listings.

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            We had the backpages. That was for health & wellness services mostly.

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            Bring me the blue pages! But don’t bring the red pages! Don’t trust Sirrus!

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              I can hear this comment so clearly lol

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        I think it depended on how big the city was for if they were separated or not.

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        It’s interesting how universal the use of colour was. I grew up in a smaller province most people don’t know (or at least can’t spell). The phone books were made by a crown corp that was pretty much just for the province. Yet, same colour schemes. Outside of the book was yellow. White pages for people, yellow for businesses.

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          We had the same (all yellow, but personal part was white, or at least as white as the shitty paper could be). But they were called “Golden pages” instead (“Žluté” (yellow) vs “Zlaté” (golden)), probably because in our language it sounds better.

          Czechia btw.

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      Thank you! These kids don’t know shit nowadays!

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        Don’t they yeah this stuff in schools anymore?

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