Something for the weekend
Yes kids, this is how awful things were before the internet was invented. We actually had to go to places and talk to real people. I really don't know how we survived.
Friday, March 6
The sentimental musings of an ageing British expat in words, music, and pictures. Files are only up for a limited time so drink them while they're hot.
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There's the most theatrical 'NO' ever filmed at 0:22
You Could Never Find Anything. It was Horrible!
We were doing some searching for something online last week, and my missus who is 12 years younger than me said: "how did people get things done before the internet?" with that tone that suggested the sentence should be followed with "in the olden days". Then she stopped, looked sideways at me and said, "sorry I forgot you were around back then..."
Cheek!
"Hello, do you have a copy of a book called Yellow Pages? You do? Wonderful! My name? It's L. O Pages ..."
[Fry and that Dr in the House fellow, I think].
Aww. Nice punch line.
Never saw the commercial but I agree with Marc above - nice punch line!
That ad was hugely popular in England, so much so I think someone actually did publish a cash-in book called 'Fly Fishing' under the name JR Hartley.
They did indeed.
I worked in a reference library for bit in about 1989 and can therefore confidently state that, for a little while, I was the internet, because that's where people went. They would phone up for help with the crossword or the quiz, looking for song lyrics or birth and death dates, a history of the channel tunnel and how to find out about work as an embalmer. One time five of us spend an hour looking for the collective noun for tigers before someone said 'do tigers go around in groups'? I can therefore confidently say that there isn't one. Although I've just looked it up on google and it suggests a couple of possibles before acknowledging that there isn't one really. There's progress.
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