Part of the Barry show was a section called "Can Buck Do It?" where Barry attempted various feats, such as tearing a telephone book in half.
They have come to be known as "phonebooks" as their thickness and paper stock resemble that of North American phone books.
The Guinness World Record for ripping the most telephone directories is 27; the record for French telephone directories is 29, held by Georges Christen.
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In 2007 Telecom Lesotho and Econet Lesotho merged to form Econet Telecom Lesotho The company publishes an online telephone directory and operates a Web portal in partnership with AC Braby.
The Blue pages, a defunct a telephone directory listing of American and Canadian government agencies