Phone Book

Mr. Watts became the top lawyer for Southwestern Bell's phone-book business for two years before moving to its mergers and acquisitions staff in 1988. ❋ Anton Troianovski (2011)

And she added, you could one-by-one unbind the pages of the phone-book to separate them, but in a relationship the married couple is responsible for working together to fix problems, rather than one-by-one taking the phone-books apart again. ❋ Bats22 (2008)

At my U I've been trying to organize a revolt to drop the Calculus phone-book MaBell size not the piss-weak modern ones in favor of something from Dover together with our own notes and problems. ❋ EliRabett (2009)

The group titled Wish List/Gloves Off Pewter, though, exposes a specific and ghastly ethical dilemma that apparently played out in a series of 2003 emails: several individuals plead for the army to use more "coercive interrogation techniques" (the literal "wish list" includes, for instance, low-voltage electrocution and phone-book strikes), while one, lone, pacifying voice advises to "take a deep breath and stay on high ground." ❋ Unknown (2009)

So the new Google Profile appears at the very bottom of the search page, and it basically looks like a phone-book entry. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Eventually, the digital social network will become such a normal part of our lives that having a profile in the ether is as common and expected as phone numbers in the phone book used to be (in fact, people in their teens and 20s are already more likely to look for a Web profile than even consider looking in a giant paper phone-book). ❋ Unknown (2007)

I suspect Ian Bogost has met the same journalists as I do, although I am baffled that they managed to track down Ian, seeing as they can't use google and he isn't in the Norwegian phone-book. ❋ Torill (2009)

It's very highly likely that even if such transparency is mandated, companies will find ways around it, thereby making phone-book size regulations inevitable. ❋ Unknown (2009)

SEXY VOICE AND ROBO Viz: A phone-book sized collection of terrific stories about a girl who uses her considerable smarts to meddle in the lives of strangers, sometimes at the request of a retired yakuza. ❋ Unknown (2008)

With playbooks approaching phone-book heft, however, intelligence has become a key measure of NFL draftees. ❋ Unknown (2006)

David writes "A phone-book sized collection of terrific stories about a girl who uses her considerable smarts to meddle in the lives of strangers, sometimes at the request of a retired yakuza." ❋ Unknown (2008)

The capper came in the 2006 merger with fellow publisher R.H. Donnelley Corp., creating the nation's third-largest phone-book outfit by total volumes published. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Initially, I needed somebody to guide me to the information—the first line of a movie, the first name on the phone-book page—then the cascade of images took over. ❋ Dominic Smith (2007)

Hands-free is the same technology used in most Bluetooth-equipped cars; it provides more access to the Bluetooth device, such as phone-book integration. ❋ Unknown (2007)

AT&T argued that a plastic phone-book cover obscured the advertisement on the cover of the Yellow Pages and reduced the value of the paid advertising, revenues that helped reduce the cost of telephone service. ❋ Katie Hafner (2001)

On it he had jotted down the addresses which he had found in the phone-book. ❋ Simenon, Georges, 1903- (1972)

I'm pretty drunk, but I still don't want to [go back] to [jail]. I guess I'll have to phone book my redheaded [step kids]. ❋ Stitecin And Kangarine (2006)

[aw fuck] dude, grab the phone book, my [internet's] fucked and I wanna show you this bitch [stomp] on this guys balls repeatedly... it's hot. ❋ Simon Lexington (2008)

"[pass] us [the phone] [book]" ❋ Pro-nun-see-A-shun (2003)

[Two guys] are at [the park] and a particulary [ugly girl] walks past them. They look at each other and say, "phone book!" ❋ Dotlc1028 (2007)

[i'll bet] you [the phone] book [bet that] i wont break any of these bottles of shine!!! ❋ Redneckeddy (2009)

I used that Alabama phone book to find [Andrew's] [wife's] [phone number] who also happens to be his cousin. ❋ Jake Gouta (2015)

Hey Mulldozer what you [up to] tonight. Man nothing I was just about [to go] phone book pimpin for that girl [a Long]. ❋ Big BING (2005)

Rupert [howled], when the [morning after] the pickles and [cheese party] he had to pass a rolled up phone book ❋ Loopydave (2020)

"Man, you were putting away those martinis and [pork pies] like [nobody's business] last night." "[Uh huh]. By the end I was as full as a fairy's phone book." "God damn." ❋ Magogigle (2009)

-phone rings late at night and is answered by person who is not a phone book wanker- silence! "...Who are you and why are you calling me?" "eeehhrmm.... who ur you??" "[Not telling you]!" "well yer a wanker then!" Both parties are aware who the real wanker is, but only one is enough of a wanker to actually state that the person receiving the call is a wanker. Said wanker - the phone [book wanker] - will then get bored and either do what wankers do best or go back to his (probably sticky) [phonebook] to find another hapless victim. ❋ Plains, Trains & Automobiles (2011)