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kirkoman@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

• kirkoman@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

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  • MotoAsh@piefed.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Samsonite! I was close.

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    • djsaskdja@reddthat.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Swanson

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  • TheBat@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    All of this could’ve been avoided had Sarah asked her roommate to get phone line in her name.

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    • Agent641@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      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.

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      • TheBat@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Exactly!

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  • HugeNerd@lemmy.ca ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Bess Motta was pretty hot.

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• empireOfLove2@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  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.

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  • MrScottyTay@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    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”.

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  • titanicx@lemmy.zip ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    You used to make pretty good money being able to deliver the phone books too when they came out. It’s funny how people think the gig economy is new when we are doing everything we could to make money anyway possible. From delivering newspapers to phone books to door to door sales for advertising businesses in the phone book.

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• MrQuallzin@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  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.

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  • Iheartcheese@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    They do it to annoy you. Just you.

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  • borari@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    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.

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  • far_university1990@reddthat.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    If type like sound in head, where and were same. And type learned enough not think about every letter.

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  • blackbrook@mander.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    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…

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• Ronan@piefed.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Depends on where you are from I guess, there were many countries that used yellow pages for residential.

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• digger@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Came here to day this… Because I’m old.

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