Good morning guys and gals. As a lurker on another brand's list
(GASP!!! THE HORROR!!!) I came across this posting which I freely admit to
swiping and copying to this list. Read it, hopefully get some amusement,
recognize your friends and fellow listers and please please please don't
start a thread on light bulbs. What the other list apparently doesn't have
is a punster equal to our own Garry Lewis. So the obvious line left out
was one about the list member who posted what an en "light" ening
experience it was reading how to change a light bulb. Those of you who
subscribe to other lists know we're all really the same; we just wear
different brand badges. Enjoy and keep the OM posts coming.
Gary
How many e-mail list members does it take to change a lightbulb?
1 to change the light bulb and to post that the light bulb has been
changed
14 to share similar experiences of changing light bulbs and how the
light bulb could have been
changed differently
7 to caution about the dangers of changing light bulbs
27 to point out spelling/grammar errors in posts about changing light
bulbs
53 to flame the spell checkers
41 to correct spelling/grammar flames
6 to argue over whether it's "lightbulb" or "light bulb" ...
another 6 to condemn those 6 as anal-retentive
2 industry professionals to inform the group that the proper term
is "lamp"
15 know-it-alls who claim *they* were in the industry, and
that "light bulb" is perfectly correct
156 to email the participant's ISPs complaining that they are in
violation of their "acceptable use policy"
109 to post that this group is not about light bulbs and to please
take this discussion to a lightbulb group
203 to demand that cross posting to hardware forum, off-topic forum,
and lightbulb group about changing light bulbs be stopped
111 to defend the posting to this group saying that we all use light
bulbs and therefore the posts *are* relevant to this group
306 to debate which method of changing light bulbs is superior, where
to buy the best light bulbs, what brand of light bulbs work best for
this technique, and what brands are faulty
27 to post URL's where one can see examples of different light bulbs
14 to post that the URL's were posted incorrectly and then post the
corrected URL's
3 to post about links they found from the URL's that are relevant to
this group which makes light bulbs relevant to this group
33 to link all posts to date, quote them in their entirety including
all headers and signatures, and add "Me too"
12 to post to the group that they will no longer post because they
cannot handle the light bulb controversy
19 to quote the "Me too's" to say "Me three"
4 to suggest that posters request the light bulb FAQ
44 to ask what is a "FAQ"
4 to say "didn't we go through this already a short time ago?"
143 to say "do a Google search on light bulbs before posting
questions about light bulbs"
1 forum lurker to respond to the original post 6 months from now and
start it all over again....
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