How many forum members does it take..

[feersum.endjinn 6]

How many forum members does it takes 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

1 to move it to the Lighting section

2 to argue then move it to the Electricals section

7 to point out spelling/grammar errors in posts about changing light bulbs

5 to flame the spell checkers

3 to correct spelling/grammar flames

6 to argue over whether it's "lightbulb" or "light bulb" ... another 6 to condemn those 6 as stupid

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

19 to post that this forum is not about light bulbs and to please take this discussion to a lightbulb forum

11 to defend the posting to this forum saying that we all use light bulbs and therefore the posts are relevant to this forum

36 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

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

4 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

13 to link all posts to date, quote them in their entirety including all headers and signatures, and add "Me too"

5 to post to the group that they will no longer post because they cannot handle the light bulb controversy

4 to say "didn't we go through this already a short time ago?"

13 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.

1 Moderator to remove hotlinked images of lightbulbs over 100kb.

edit: well it seems forum cut the topic short and won't let me edit it.. oh well...

[hellfish6 7]

HAHAHAHAHAHAHA!

[Placebo 28]

Title (and post!) edited

Bit OT but it's very apt so no harm in living for a little while

[raedor 8]

hehe, it's cool... but pretty old

[theavonlady 2]

Ancient.

Now I'll need to write up a lightbulb changing FAQ item, I suppose.

[sputnik monroe 102]

Don't forget

1 to post an image

1 to quote the image

1 moderator to ask please do not quote image tags

2 more to quote the image tags again

[FSPilot 0]

And denoir to post a statistical analysis of who thinks the light bulb shouldn't be changed, should be changed, or should be changed to the new "white-light" bulbs.

[DarkLight 0]

1 mod to lock this topic (preferably placebo)

and end it all!  

[red oct 2]

40 forum members to get into a debate on which presidential canidate could do a better job at changing lightbulbs, George Bush or John Kerry.

[SpeedyDonkey 0]

Quote[/b] ]7 to post URL's where one can see examples of different light bulbs

3 to post about popups from those URL's

7 to post about mozilla firefox stopping those popups

[raedor 8]

Quote[/b] ]7 to post URL's where one can see examples of different light bulbs

3 to post about popups from those URL's

7 to post about mozilla firefox stopping those popups

10 to post that IE is better and safer than mozilla firefox

2 to post many links to prove that mozilla firefox is safer

[Munk 0]

1 to post pointless spam

[raedor 8]

1 to post pointless spam

1? 50!

[shinRaiden 0]

1 to argue transubstantiation does not apply to lightbulbs therefore it's not wrong to pull the plug...

1 to debate whether electricity and all the other physical elements are manifestations of higher spiritual substance...

3~4 with automated forum alerts keyed to the previous two's nick's to nitpick every detail, adding 20~30 pages of circular logic...

1 original poster to complain about his post being hijacked to who knows where...

2~3 third-wheels to try and pull it off in a tangent "you don't spin it right or left, you pop it out"...

1 luddite to complain about having lightbulbs in the first place...

2 to continually pester for the source code to the electricity, when the socket design is already known and they could just stick a meter in it...

~1000's of folks whose english is not good enough to follow all this, or wonder why we are talking about light bulbs...

2~3 lightbulb developers to show up and make random but critically relevant comments like "don't mix copper and aluminum connects"...

~10,000's running around in circles poking the bulb and shaking the ladder demanding to know when it is done...

1~3 great ones to come out of nowhere and show everyone how to plug the giant batman signal lamp into the itty-bitty socket - and make it work...

2~4 to show how to take the lightbulb out of the box

10's to cry "the sky is falling" over the horror of the box being opened...

~5 to quit in protest over people opening the package of lightbulbs...

~5 lightbulb experts to bail out of replacing incandescent bulbs, and their fingerprints are mysteriously found all over the fluorescent bulbs...

~100's to complain about fluorescent bulbs, and start rumors that incandescents are being abandoned...

2 mods to turn the lights out on fluorescent users when they share the light with the incandescent users...

1 dim bulb to really confuse everyone...

[Tovarish 0]

1 to post a babelfished set of instructions on how to screw in a light bulb

Quote[/b] ]So can you steer the World Wide Web, but you still don't can screw in lightbulb? Follow these directions and let you light be there.

Steps: 1. Turn the lamp or the bright attachment off.

2. Before affecting they leave you a hot pear cooling.

3. Seize the pear easily however and turn you to the left, until them are approved by the verge.

4. Insert a re-installation pear easily however firmly into the verge, and you turn them to the right to it's comfortably.

5. Turn the lamp or the attachment back.

6. Get rid of the used pear.

Top speeds: Examine the achievement in Watts on the used pear and replace you them with a pear of the same achievement in Watts.

Warnings: Get rid of the used pear surely, from range of the children out. Do not insert your fingers into the bright verge.

And for good measure a pornolized version of the same instructions:

Quote[/b] ]So you can navigate the World "Butplug" Wide Web but you still don't know how to screw in a lightbulb? Follow these blows and let there be light.

Felchs:

1. Turn off the sex fighting lamp or light fixture.

2. Allow a hot bulb to cool before thrusting it.

3. Grasp the bulb lightly but firmly and turn counterclockwise until it is banged from the socket.

4. Insert a replacement bulb lightly but firmly into the titty fucking socket, and turn it clockwise until it's snug.

5. Turn the lamp or fixture back on.

6. Dispose of the used bulb.

Tips:

Check the wattage on the fucking used bulb and replace it with a ballbusting bulb of the sex fighting same wattage.

Warnings:

Dispose of the fingering used bulb safely, out of reach of children.

Do not put your fingers in the light socket.

[ozanzac 0]

One to mention how he got electricuted changing a light bulb a few days ago...........many to respond with why wasn't the switch turned off.......one to reply: it was dark....I couldn't tell if the switch was on.

[Albert Schweitzer 10]

one to start asking when the new generation of light bulbs will be available in the stores

two to reply that this is a good question to ask

one to ask what hardware requirements this new generation of bulbs has.

Another one feels motivated to mention the fact that his lamp holder is already giving him enough trouble.

twenty to come forward with speculations about the size, color, perfomance of the new bulb.

One representative of the company showing up to officially publish that all speculations are nothing else than ... well speculations

sixty not to believe that speculations are coming from nowhere and to open site about speculations.

In the end more than 200 have broken their bulbs at least once. Several tried to mail to the producer, other went to a shop to simply buy an new one, and again others simply got a bulb from a different company.

But the speculations about a new Bulb always remained.

Some desperate members switched to the industrial highpower version of the bulb... their serial number usually starts with VBS and finishes with a 1.

[Winters 1]

3 to have their warning levels increased because of bitching about the people who bitch about the validity of a light bulb thread.

[theavonlady 2]

One to ask if the little lightbulb pic next to forum member's names has something to do with this thread.

EDIT: Yes! That's it!

A white bulb indicates a lightbulb changing expert. A yellow bulb indicates member is subject to periodic electrocutions. Red bulbs indicate deceased forum members.

[Radnik 18]

1 to make dxdll for better/new reflection effect  

1 team to make a light bulb 400MB mod  

[Placebo 28]

1 to post it to another forum and get all the glory for finding it

[sniping-jack 0]

A unknown man is entering the room with this thousands of crazy people inside discussing something about lightbulbs.

He is putting a burning candlelight on the table, open his mouth and says with a sonor voice:

"...and he saw that is was good!"

[Pathy 0]

You registered to dig up a month old topic and say that?

[theavonlady 2]

You registered to dig up a month old topic and say that?  

Maybe not all the lights are on upstairs, hence.....................

[raedor 8]

A unknown man is entering the room with this thousands of crazy people inside discussing something about lightbulbs.

He is putting a burning candlelight on the table, open his mouth and says with a sonor voice:

"...and he saw that is was good!"

sniping-jack.... here?