I was talking to a coworker about these new phishing attacks that send your name and address and sometimes a picture of your house, and I was saying how creepy it is, and they told me that phonebooks were delivered to everyone and used to have like literally everyone in a city listed by last name with their phone number and address. Is that for real?

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    3 months ago

    I hated how these were delivered to you whether you wanted them or not. So much junk.

    They made really great fires though if you tore each page out, crumpled them up and stuffed them between the logs.

    Also interesting, I took one about an inch or so thick and shot it point blank with a 12 gauge shotgun and tiny yellow circular confetti came out, which was neat to see.

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      My parents got the newspaper when I was young, that’s kind of that was. It would just stack up because they rarely ever read it and then eventually we’d burn a bunch in the backyard firepit or use it to start the fireplace.