Changing a lightbulb question.

[Toledo Jim]

I saw this elsewhere and immediately thought of all of us:

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How many forum members does it take to change a light bulb?


1 to change the light bulb.

1 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.

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 forum is not about light bulbs and to please
take this discussion to a lightbulb forum.

203 to demand that cross posting to hardware forum, off-topic forum,
and lightbulb forum about changing light bulbs be stopped.

111 to defend the posting to this forum saying that we all use light
bulbs and therefore the posts are relevant to this forum.

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 URLs where one can see examples of different light bulbs.

14 to post that the URLs were posted incorrectly and then post the
corrected URLs.

27 to post about links they found from the URLs 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 search on 'light bulbs' before posting questions
about light bulbs".

1 new forum member to respond to the original post 6 months from now
and to start it all over again.

[sledge]

There is a whole section of people missing.......The ones who do know the correct answers but dont post them because they are fed up with others arguing they are wrong so think to themselves f**k it! why should I bother..........but in saying that most of those individuals have left this forum now or dont contribute anywhere near as much as they did.

[Phaedrus]

143 to say "do a search on 'light bulbs' before posting questions
about light bulbs".

Sad, but true. 

[Kasumi]

They missed out the one where 70 people quote a quote of a quote and agree with it Usually with the use of emoticons 

[pnaberhaus]

Jim, you made my morning . Thanx!

[scratch]

They missed out the one where 70 people quote a quote of a quote and agree with it Usually with the use of emoticons 

Or, +1

[CasiUSA]

You forgot:
43 to post about how the political implications of lightbulbs and how it offends them as a bigender heteroflexible dwarf who is afro-eurasian-american.

[Toledo Jim]

Okay, saw some other old threads bumped, so here's another.

Jim

[yamahonkawazuki]

with emoticons   

[jserio]

  i gotta change my shorts now i pissed my pants laughin so hard. 

[scottpA_GS]

That was awesome 

[The Buddha]

And 1 mod to tard this oft repeated with slight twists re-re-re-re-re-re-re-re-re-re-post ...
Cool.
Buddha.

[Toledo Jim]

Time to do it again! 

[slipperymongoose]

Rofl so funny and true

[mister]

Michael

[yamahonkawazuki]

and an assmonkey bumping up long dead threads, while searching for lightbulb data. now you can no longer give me hell over bumping dead threads lol. i know ive been here too long when i go to hte beginning of the threads, and even the archives and find my posts. ( search let me introduce frankenbike) ( was maybe my third thread/post)