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The yellow one was for businesses. Residential phone numbers and often addresses where in the white book.
All of this could've been avoided had Sarah asked her roommate to get phone line in her name.
Yes the terminator would have reached the end of the list and gone "Whelp, guess the humans outsmarted us again!" And just give up on the spot. Terminator are known for giving up at the slightest setback.
Exactly!
Samsonite! I was close.
(I know I know wrong movie, but it is another phone book scene at least)
Swanson
In smaller areas they'd make the yellow book and white book the same book to save on binding and distribution. I remember back in the very early 2000's my rural county still got the 400+ page yellow pages delivered every year.
I think in the UK it was just yellow with "The Yellow Pages", the actual name of the book itself and the company in charge of it. I know it eventually became just businesses but I'm sure it was more than that before the millennium. Now it's just a business ratings website just called "Yell".
Legitimate question, why do people keep typing "where" instead of "were"? Many typos are understandable where letters that are next to each other accidentally get swapped, but you have to go out of your way to put the h in there.
They do it to annoy you. Just you.
Autocorrect seems to have gotten noticably worse for me in recent years. I regularly find that the entirely correct words which I type out get changed to something completely different because the autocorrect decided that I couldn't possibly mean that word. It regularly helpfully replaces entire words after I hit space and have moved on to the next. By that time, I'm usually focused on the next word, so slip-ups that I almost never make at a dumb keyboard (like its vs. it's, there vs. their, your vs. you're, or were vs. where vs. wear) happen with shocking regularity unless I proofread the entire comment. As a perfect example, I had to proofread and fix multiple instances of such while typing those examples.
I switched mine off a while back and even though I'm now fully responsible for my own terrible spelling and grammar, I'm pretty sure both have actually improved since.
Probably they’re swiping on a phone keyboard and autocorrect fucked them, or they’re using text to speech and the diction fucked up and they didn’t proofread it.
I can't speak for others, and I'm not sure I ever make that particular typo (espec swipe typing on phone), but I've noticed that I sometimes make typos that don't particularly make sense to me... I'll write a similar word that I would never actually confuse with the word I wanted...is not a homophone, is not a letter adjacency typo. I think the brain just works differently than we expect sometimes...
If type like sound in head, where and were same. And type learned enough not think about every letter.
Depends on where you are from I guess, there were many countries that used yellow pages for residential.
Came here to day this... Because I'm old.