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We've all had the experience of looking in the Yellow Pages for some
common business category and being unable to find it. The cross-referencing
systems added recently by phone companies help but don't always include even
common categories. At the same time, if you browse through the
Yellow Pages as I do, you will find wonderfully archaic or obscure categories
listed. It's a wonder that the average person can find anything at all
in the Yellow Pages.

I'm looking for examples of really irritating Yellow Pages categorizations.
Any contributions? I'll kick it off with my current gripes about my
local 1986-87 NYNEX YP. I can't find any listing for video arcades,
not under video, games, or even amusements. There are listings for
manufacturers and distributors of video games (or amusement devices in the
phone company dialect), but none for arcades. They must be in
there somewhere.

No video arcades, but if you're looking for an abbatoir - no problem. That
happens to be the first listing in the book.

Just to make this interesting, accompany submissions with information about
who publishes your Yellow Pages so we know who the culprits are.

David Fay
...!harvard!bunny!daf1