I have changed the light bulb.

How many group 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

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

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....

and one to tell you that this was posted at least twice before. actually three times to my memory.

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All hail Ravenelle Zugzwang, Forum Lurker Extraordinaire!

Just kidding.

And Kris, doesn't that make you one of the "didn't we go through this already a
short time ago?" ones?

My last two years of college, I lived in an apartment off campus. It was one of those second story places that's really the top floor of a house, with an old rickety wooden staircase leading up to a little platform with a light above the door.

One night, the light burned out suddenly. I had to go out or something, so I couldn't just leave it and change it the next day when there was daylight. I put a kitchen chair out on the platform, stood on it (in the dark) and put in the new bulb... the sudden blinding light startled me so much I nearly fell off the chair and over the edge of the platform, no doubt to my death.

It occurred to me later that probably standing on a wobbly chair, on a small platform high above the ground, in the dark, was not a wise thing to do. Just a simple cautionary tale.

Technically, a light outside is called a "lamp". I used to work in the industry, so I know.

~Ulrika~

From light bulbs to virtual sim mayor.

Ulrika Sr. Must be proud! ^_^

Now, please, this group is not about lamps or light bulbs (or lightbulbs), please take this discussion to a lamp or light bulb (or lightbulb) group.

I wish to object! This entire thread is inflammatory to hard-working light bulbs everywhere!

Consider, for instance, this one (from Snopes):

Watt a Lightbulb!
Claim: A lightbulb manufactured in 1901 burns bright to this day.

Status: True.

Origins: Today you'll find a remarkable light bulb burning bright at a fire station in Livermore, California. It hasn't been turned off since 1901.

The Guinness Book of World Records, Ripley's Believe It Or Not and General Electric agree the bulb, of unknown wattage, is the longest-living in history, despite two moves and a few power outages during its lifetime.

The bulb was donated to the department in 1901 by Dennis Bernal, a pioneer in the area who owned the Livermore Power and Light Co. It was hung as a night light in a downtown garage that served as both a police and fire department five years before the great San Francisco earthquake and fire in 1906. A few years later, the bulb found its way to the "new" pre-Depression City Hall that also housed the two departments and twenty-odd years ago was moved for a final time to Station One in Livermore.

Successive fire chiefs have regarded it as their talisman. "Nobody wants that darn bulb to go out on their watch," says fire chief Gary Stewart. "If that thing goes out while I'm still chief it will be a career's worth of bad luck."

Previous chiefs have had standing orders that if any firefighter, for whatever reason, accidentally broke the light, that person would suddenly find plenty of time to update his résumé.

Barbara "light reading" Mikkelson

coco

dont forget the obligatory noob id like my piece of first land post which is completely unrelated

So... should this thread be moved to the light bulb forum, or the lightbulb forum? Aren't they two separate subgroups of the more general lamp forum? Can we cross-post the thread in both?

Technically, it should be moved to the "Lamp" forum.

On second thought, make that a bud light...

Where are all the people who have to ask WHY the lightbulb needed to be changed?

And complain about the post being dumped into OT from another forum? (Because you know it would be!!!)