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From: mmar@sphinx.UChicago.UUCP (Mitchell Marks)
Newsgroups: net.women
Subject: Filler lines in yellow pages
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Date: Tue, 27-Aug-85 03:08:26 EDT
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Posted: Tue Aug 27 03:08:26 1985
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Organization: U Chicago -- Linguistics Dept
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Today as I was looking something up in the yellow pages, for some reason
I actually read some of those little fillers they put at the bottoms of
columns, profferring `tips' on telephone use or, more often, exhortations
to use the yellow pages.  Here are two:

           HOUSEWIVES...BUSINESSMEN...
           EVERYONE CAN MAKE USE OF
           THE YELLOW PAGES.


           MAKE SURE OF ADDRESSES BY CON-
           SULTING THESE PAGES BEFORE VISITING
           PROFESSIONAL MEN'S OFFICES.

You mean housewives can use the alphabet?  Who let them learn a thing like
that -- it could lead to something dangerous.  (Oh, it must have been some
of those professional men.)

Me, I'm just an amateur man.
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            -- Mitch Marks @ UChicago 
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