Back to B.C. by Johnny Hart for May 27, 2023

They ran out of Yellow Cedar trees to make the yellow paper.

I think he should demand a white paper on this subject.

Not sure I want to know where they got yellow dye from in those days….

Phone books are becoming a thing of the past. It is a peeve of mine to perform an online search for a number and be unable to find it without subscribing to a service. The “Names and Numbers” book was delivered the other day and it is only about 3/8ths of an inch thick, comprised mostly of advertisements and Yellow Page business listings.

“Let your fingers do the walking…”

I still get the local phone book of surrounding communities…never use it though. ☹️

The calls that most grind on me are the those from companies or medical offices at which I am a customer, but that have only a phone number on the dial. Can’t separate them from spam or cold calls, so have to wait to see it they leave a message. If not message, I don’t pick up. Can’t even depend on the area code being the same as mine, as many use their personal phones for business.

My years in advertising taught me one good marketing tool, i.e., be sure that one’s brand name is prominent in all contacts with the public. Once a sale or service is satisfactorily completed, seeing the name on the phone usually guarantees that the consumer will answer in a positive way.

And there are sources for back-tracing unknown numbers but most usually show up as ‘unassigned.’

Which brings the question: how is it scammers have such free access to what is supposed to be a consumer reserved data base? Don’t the vaunted communications companies use any security precautions?

“If you wondered why your phone bill is higher”…

… and the operator says 40 cents more for the next three minutes, pleas…