Mild Amusement for Saturday boredom

[bravo 35]

Because if you're reading this around the time I'm posting it, you are either a poor sap like me working on the weekend, or have the day off, but have no social life.

Either way you might enjoy this:

How many forum members does it take to change a lightbulb?

1 to change the light bulb and 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

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 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 URL's where one can see examples of different light bulbs

14 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

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 Google 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

start it all over again

[_ethrty-Andy_ 2132]

Crack up!

surprised it says nothing to to do with people getting there post counts up

Edited February 20, 2010 by ethrty320

[antil33t 90]

Brilliant.

I've got nothing to do on a saturday, but oh my it's a nice day here.