Going through your local telephone directory

Your local telephone directory (also called phone book) is one-stop source to find local phone numbers of business, government offices, and residential addresses. Although internet makes it easy to get phone information and more for a particular organization or individual, a phone book is still a handy tool that does not require an internet connection to browse. This is what you will find in a phone book:

• Phone numbers (and addresses) for federal state, and local government (refer to the blue pages of the phone book)
• Emergency contact information
• Local maps
• List of phone numbers of local residential telephone customers (this is in phone book called "white pages")
• Phone numbers and addresses of local business and organizations
• Local vendor coupons

If you can’t find a telephone number or you don’t have the book or a computer handy, try the 411 service. With this service you can get a specific number anywhere in the US. However, the use of service may cost you a small fee.

A telephone directory for the Metropolitan Baltimore (Maryland, United States) area

Depending on where you live the United States, your community may have its own community phone book. Basically, it is a condensed version of a big yellow or white pages book.

Posted on: 6:22:09 PM EDT February 19 2008

1. Wife: I feel apathy today. Husband: who cares?

2. One late evening an eight year old boy is sitting in his living room and watching through the window. All the sudden, he starts screaming that someone is looking at him through the window. His mom hears the screams and comes to his aid. She also looks in the window and notices the boy was just looking at his own reflection!

3. Why is a man unable to read after getting a pair of eye glasses? He was an illiterate.