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Cuda
08-28-2005, 06:47 PM
How many forum members does it take to change a light bulb?

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 about it a while, then move it to the Electrical 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 the first 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 and politically correct.

19 to post that this group is not about light bulbs and to please take this discussion to a lightbulb group.

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 kinds and brands of 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.

5 people to hotlink to pictures of lightbulbs hosted on geocities.

6 people to complain about dead images.

3 people to tell them to right click the image and copy the URL into another window.

13 to read all posts to date, quote them in their entirety including all headers, images and signatures, and add “I agree”.

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 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.

TuxedoPk
08-28-2005, 08:02 PM
This is exactly the type of post that causes us to loose long time members. Don't you realize that many of us have wives and girlfriends who visit this site and don't appreciate your type of 'let your filament hang out' genre of post! There would be nothing wrong with a tasteful bulb story or photo every now and then but for God's sake, cover it up with a shade or cover of some sort.

Perhaps we need to have a poll:

1.) Allow exposed filament and bulbs
2.) Move to a secure passworded, encrypted, secret handshake section
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ROFL- Great post Joe!

mattyboy
08-28-2005, 08:10 PM
don't forget the I have been doing this since when god said let there be light i threw the switch post

and the incandesent flouresent debacle post

the ge vs sylvania post

the pink neon flamingo post

and of course the how to properly foam in a light bulb to prevent damage in shipping


:rlol:

Cuda
08-28-2005, 08:27 PM
Tux, you're a bad man! :biggrin: