#yellow pages

[justseventeen]

June 1968. 'What's black and yellow and read all over? The Yellow Pages Dress!'

[wordfromoursponsor]

"Tell your prospects where to find your products" (1954)

[misforgotten2]

He's finding out just now that this leaky pipe is connected to a urinal.

Look - February 7th 1967

[lisamarie-vee]

[phantom-of-the-apartment]

[nkp1981]

Yellow Pages Christmas Ad, 1992

[jhsharman]

"Hula Hoot!"

They either dropped Louella McGruff -- while retaining her history and background and identifiable job role -- or they radically changed her appearance -- by which I mean hair color and doo.

[what-marsha-eats]

[taxi-davis]

Yellow Pages TV commercial for Sholtz & Friends, Germany (Dir) Vonlolly, (DoP) Sebastian Milaszewski- Stink, Prague 1999

[arconinternet]

Wile E. Coyote Donnelley Directory Ads (Videos, 1986-1987)

You can watch them here and here.

[amalgamasreal]

How old are you?

I'll go first, I have a copy of this thing from when my grade school obtained access to a mystical thing called "THE INTERNET".

There was literally a time before search engines where there were so few websites online that you could catalog them in a single 600 page book and sell that thing to people as a way to advertise new sites. I think the last copy of this was over 1200 pages long and then they gave up trying to catalog them. 🤣

[angelkarafilli]

Spring mood

[misforgotten2]

Why don’t you just take your medication and we wouldn’t be keep having this problem, mom?

[shapes-nd-colors]

Day like 1 and 2 of this art experiment thing I'm doing idk I just like this paper and I want to draw on it

(I also thought about making small prints of each of them or whichever ones I like I don't know)

[petermorwood]

This is funny (voice of childhood experience, I seldom ran with scissors, but I frequently used them ... let’s say inadvisedly) and for that reason the Accent of My Homeland makes it even funnier.

*****

@dduane sat in our rental car and watched something similar happen to me when we were crossing the US-Canada border many years ago. 

She thought the Canadian immigration officer had found something wrong with my passport, instead of which the officer was a fan of my books and had found something wrong with one of them.

It was a continuity glitch in “The Horse Lord” which, until then, nobody else had mentioned.

“Nobody else” included the author, test-readers, agent, agent’s reader, UK publisher’s editor and copy-editor, US publisher’s editor and copy-editor, four foreign-language translators and every single fan who wrote a letter or spoke to me at a con...

The glitch was this: the Hero puts on his sword - and a page-and-a-half later, another character notices that it’s hung on the wall. :-P

In my defence, the phrasing COULD imply that noticing had taken place before the putting-on, but lack of clarity meant it really was a bit of an Oops, and the publisher’s reluctance to do any re-typesetting Just For That meant it took YEARS to fix... 

:->

I’m watching a documentary on YouTube and the person who uploaded it didn’t edit out the commercials, but I’m glad they didn’t because I lost it at this one.