> I learned the other day that the first phone book ever published had fifty entries.
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> I don't know how that would have been enough to make a "book".
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> Oh, yes. And the current phone book for my city has sixteen pages of Smiths. Probably pretty hard to find the Smith you're looking for.
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> Si"I feel sorry for people named Smith, they must get a lot of wrong number calls"lon

It's really hard when you're a Williams as well. We always list our phone number under my boyfriend's surname, because at least people may have a chance of finding us. :-)

ding"Williams"dong