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How many mailing list members does
it take to change a lightbulb? By (Anonymous) |
This was posted on the repeater-builder mailing list at www.yahoogroups.com on September 21 of 2005.
> How many list members does it take to change a lightbulb? > > One to change the light bulb and a second to post that the light > bulb has been changed (the first does not have regular email access). > > Fourteen to share similar experiences of changing light bulbs > and how the light bulb could have been changed differently. > > Seven to caution about the dangers of changing light bulbs. > > Seven more to point out spelling or grammar errors in the posts > about changing light bulbs. > > Five to flame the spell checkers. > > Three to correct spelling/grammar flames. > > Six to argue over whether it's "lightbulb" or "light bulb" > ... another six to condemn those six as stupid. > > Fifteen to claim experience in the lighting industry and give > correct spelling. > > One to post the old joke about "Hams don't change light bulbs, > they redesign the ciruit to use LED's". > > Two to post that "LED's" is incorrect grammar, and that the > plural form of LED is LEDs. > > Three to post that the "LED's" / LEDs postings are Off Topic > as the current discussion is about light bulbs. > > Nineteen to post that this group is not about light bulbs or LEDs > and to please take this discussion to a lightbulb (or light bulb > or LED) forum / mailing list / chatroom / whatever. > > Eleven to defend the posting to the group saying that we all use > light bulbs and therefore the posts are relevant to this group. > > Two to say "I'm having to change lightbulbs tomorrow at work > therefore it is relevant to ME". > > Thirty-six 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. > > Seven to post URLs where one can see examples of different light > bulbs. > > Four to post that the URLs were posted incorrectly and then post > the corrected URL (bracketed inside < and > characters so that > word wrap does not break the URLs). > > Three to post about links they found from the URLs that are > relevant to this group which makes light bulbs relevant to > this group. > > Thirteen to link all postings to date, quote them in their entirety > including all headers, trailers and signatures, and add "Me too". > > Another four that again quote the above "all postings"and add "Me three". > > Five to post to the group that they are quiting the list because > they cannot handle the light bulb controversy. > > Four to ask "didn't we go through this already a short time ago?" > > Thirteen to say "Google is your friend", or "Do a Google search on > light bulbs before posting questions about light bulbs" > > Three to tell a funny story about their spouse/cat/dog/parrot/whatever > and a light bulb. > > Neil WA6KLA posts and says "I have 20 file cabinets of light bulb > manuals here, let me pull the correct one out for you and give you > the Motorola part number." > > AND > > One group lurker to respond to the original post 6 months from > now and start it all over again. |
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