2 posts tagged “directory”

It’s still in beta stage but fellow car nuts might want to check it out: Zak, Timothy?

www.autocade.net

   The idea is to build on the work of the late automotive writer, Michael Sedgwick, and to have more professionalism than one might find at Wikipedia. We do need some input on Japanese and American models.

I was going to call the Warehouse in Petone today after getting some excellent service from a staff member, Peato. He not only helped me, but a grandmother who was ahead of me—and he put up with her demands and jokes. But I could not initially find this large chain in the telephone book—only Warehouse Stationery appears to be there.
   Finding this unreasonable, I did the unthinkable: I looked under T. For The. And there it was.
   Now, when I grew up, we were told that only morons would file things under the definite—or indefinite—article. In fact, I distinctly remember sitcoms where the manager had a ditzy secretary who would do this, and the audience would laugh at how stupid she was. But now, the phone company does it? When did we turn into a nation of assholes that would search for the Warehouse under T? The phone book was not like this when I was growing up. Whomever set the books in those days had some intelligence.
   We will eventually get encyclopædias that have a massive T volume for entries such as the Beatles and the Isle of Man.