Luv2fly From United States of America, joined May 2003, 11957 posts, RR: 51 Posted (8 years 7 months 3 weeks 5 days 20 hours ago) and read 677 times:
Enjoy.
Someone sent me this, hope you enjoy it......
How many group members at an un-moderated group 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
Aa61hvy From United States of America, joined Nov 1999, 13975 posts, RR: 59 Reply 1, posted (8 years 7 months 3 weeks 5 days 19 hours ago) and read 664 times:
ArmitageShanks From UK - England, joined Dec 2003, 3361 posts, RR: 16 Reply 3, posted (8 years 7 months 3 weeks 5 days 18 hours ago) and read 631 times:
Whoever deleted my post in this post... it was a joke, jackass.
Tom in NO From United States of America, joined Nov 1999, 7194 posts, RR: 40 Reply 4, posted (8 years 7 months 3 weeks 5 days 13 hours ago) and read 589 times:
.....and 147 to claim that, despite the fact that the light bulb is 35 years old, paid off, and still shines brightly, the light bulb still needs replacing.
Tom at MSY
"The criminal ineptitude makes you furious"-Bruce Springsteen, after seeing firsthand the damage from Hurricane Katrina