Just a light bulb joke...

[Rohan Dhruva]

Hi,
Just when we think we have seen them all, along comes this :)

Rohan.


On 2/6/06, Peter Garrett <peter.garrett at optusnet.com.au> wrote:
> I found this while cleaning up my home directory. It seems relevant to
> most lists. No idea where I found it - it seems to have been lying
> there unread for ages ;-)
>
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> How many mailing list/ forum members does it takes to change a light bulb?
>
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>
> 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
> 1 to move it to the Lighting section
> 2 to argue then move it to the Electricals section
> 7 to point out spelling/grammar errors in posts about changing light bulbs
> 5 to flame the spell checkers
> 3 to correct spelling/grammar flames
> 6 to argue over whether it's "lightbulb" or "light bulb" ...
> another 6 to condemn those 6 as stupid
> 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
> 19 to post that this forum is not about light bulbs and to please take this
> discussion to a lightbulb forum
> 11 to defend the posting to this forum saying that we all use light bulbs
> and therefore the posts are relevant to this forum
> 36 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
> 7 to post URL's where one can see examples of different light bulbs
> 4 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
> 13 to link all posts to date, quote them in their entirety including all
> headers and signatures, and add "Me too"
> 5 to post to the group that they will no longer post because they cannot
> handle the light bulb controversy
> 4 to say "didn't we go through this already a short time ago?"
> 13 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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