Light bulbs

Zscoundrel Zscoundrel at kc.rr.com
Fri Sep 26 22:58:09 CDT 2003


Don't forget about that guy that rants about faulty light bulbs being 
similar to M$ products!!!

(grin!)

Adam J Bunton wrote:

>...and the crowd cheers.
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>On Fri, 2003-09-26 at 16:30, Jonathan Hutchins wrote:
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>>How many KCLUG subscribers does it take to discuss changing a lightbulb?
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>>1 to change the light bulb and to post that the light bulb has been
>>changed
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>>14 to share similar experiences of changing light bulbs and how the
>>light bulb could have been changed differently
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>>7 to caution about the dangers of changing light bulbs
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>>1 to move it to the Lighting section
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>>2 to argue then move it to the Electricals section
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>>7 to point out spelling/grammar errors in posts about changing light
>>bulbs
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>>5 to flame the spell checkers
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>>3 to correct spelling/grammar flames
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>>6 to argue over whether it's "lightbulb" or "light bulb" ... another 6
>>to condemn those 6 as anal-retentive
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>>2 industry professionals to inform that the proper term is "lamp"
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>>15 know-it-alls who claim they were in the industry, and that "light
>>bulb" is perfectly correct
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>>19 to post that this forum is not about light bulbs and to please take
>>this discussion to a lightbulb forum
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>>11 to defend the posting to this forum saying that we all use light
>>bulbs and therefore the posts are relevant to this forum
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>>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
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>>7 to post URL's where one can see examples of different light bulbs
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>>4 to post that the URL's were posted incorrectly and then post the
>>corrected URL's
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>>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
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>>13 to link all posts to date, quote them in their entirety including all
>>headers and signatures, and add "Me too"
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>>5 to post to the group that they will no longer post because they cannot
>>handle the light bulb controversy
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>>4 to say "didn't we go through this already a short time ago?"
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>>13 to say "do a Google search on light bulbs before posting questions
>>about light bulbs"
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>>1 forum lurker to respond to the original post 6 months from now and
>>start it all over again
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>>1 to say you gotta put "OT" in the subject line for light bulbs.
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>>5 to change the subject line so nobody has any idea what the new threads
>>are.
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