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Stolen from another forum, that was stolen from a forum.....

How many forum posters does it take to change a light bulb?

1 to change the light bulb and to post that the light bulb has been changed
16 to share similar experiences of changing light bulbs and how the light bulb could have been changed differently
6 to caution about the dangers of changing light bulbs
27 to point out spelling/grammar errors in posts about changing light bulbs
50 to flame the spell checkers
48 to correct spelling/grammar flames
7 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
154 to email the participant’s ISPs complaining that they are in violation of their “acceptable use policy”
118 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
1 to ask if when buying a new bulb they should go for a screw or bayonet type
98 to argue that their version of screw in or bayonet is better than the other and always will
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 forum lurker to respond to the original post 6 months from now and start it all over again
You know who you are....

This should be in the "Technical" section I think

Me Too

me three LOL

Shouldnt this be a FAQ on lightbulb changing

Its a lamp stoopid, not a bulb :D

one to double post about it

one to double post about it

For goodness sake, Wantsom, "Its" has an apostrophe, and stupid is not spelled with a double-o.

It's shouldn't not "shouldnt" JD_Stazza_Brendan, and acronyms should have periods between the letters (i.e. F.A.Q.). Not that you'd know it from your punctuation, but surely your post was intended as a question? In which case why was there no question mark? If you want to get technical, I believe lightbulb should actually be hyphenated as well.

Grumbly why, oh why, did you need a capital T on the too?

And most, if not all, of you need to brush up on either capitalisation at the beginning of a sentence, or even worse, a period following one.

If this forum was anything to go by, one would have to conclude that proper punctuation of the English language is dead!



:P

It's the internet baby.. anything goes.

english no good me avandulls_gal

Hoot-dogey, I didn't ya'll spoke english down yonder on the bottom of the planet. Well shoot, yaw don't even know which side of the road yar spose to drive on. Yaw'd have the Armadillos so confused yaw'd never hit one.

Strangely I understood what 'bats was saying. :o

Av's gal - I lirnd to spel wen i wos young. and to yoos punktu-ashun shortli aftawerds. ven, i Forgot when i went to biznis skool as they sed i would hav a sexcretery for that. :drool:

But i stil fink the artikal shood be be in teknikal sektion.

We have wombats down here, and man, you do not want to hit them.

Damn that was some quality randominity there merlin. *Claps*