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    How many forum members does it take...

    (You might have already seen this but let me have my fun)



    How many Message Board Posters does it take to change a light bulb???

    here goes:



    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



    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 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



    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.
    dead on the inside, i've got nothing to prove
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    lol
    i hadn't seen that before. thanks for posting it.

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    thats awesome... I hadn't seen it either.

    But I must protest that you didn't do a google search on the psychology of forum users before posting.
    Told by a fool, signifying nothing.

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    Re: How many forum members does it take...

    That's wit, my friend.

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    Lol, very good. But I would've laughed more it had been personal to each regular forum member. What can I say, I'm a ***** deep down.

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    Quote Originally Posted by imthefoolonthehill
    thats awesome... I hadn't seen it either.

    But I must protest that you didn't do a google search on the psychology of forum users before posting.
    True... I apologise
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    Whow!

    Exclusive sarcastic analysis by Koa!

    You made me laugh...

    Do you want me to reply philosophically, or shall we not make this point an example of your point.

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    Just incase someone didn't realise, I didnt write that!!! That's why I said you might have seen it somewhere else, I guess it's relatively common to find this 'joke' in forums etc...
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    hehe, really good! :-)
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    hmmm... out of curiousity, (sp??) what other forums do people here visit?
    Told by a fool, signifying nothing.

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    I have one forum/site that I go to noted on my profile, one in keeping with this one, but I will refrain from sharing any others I go to, you'd surely rather not know.


    Quote Originally Posted by imthefoolonthehill
    hmmm... out of curiousity, (sp??) what other forums do people here visit?

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    Quote Originally Posted by den
    I have one forum/site that I go to noted on my profile, one in keeping with this one, but I will refrain from sharing any others I go to, you'd surely rather not know.


    Quote Originally Posted by imthefoolonthehill
    hmmm... out of curiousity, (sp??) what other forums do people here visit?
    Same for me...you don't want to know!
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    This thread is insane!!!!!!!! Why, oh WHY would anyone bother to talk about changing lightbulbs??????!!! Or is this one of the cases that someone right here *thinks of the thread starter* needs an sppointment with a shrink who deals with lightbulbs and different ways of changing them: pulling them back and rotating it clockwise or anti-clockwise, pushing them back and turns it twice, remove it again and puts it back in and this time using a light hammer to jack it on back while singing "Here Goes the Lighbulb, Honey" (there is NO such song) and suddenly drops it and breaks to pieces after then thinking of another creative way how to buy the same lightbulb (maybe hops and tumbles his way to the store), then gets home to find that the lightbulb is not working and...ohhhhhh, I can go on and on here without stopping for oxygen!

    By the way, in case you're just wondering, I'm one of the "19 forum members to post that this forum is not about light bulbs and to please take this discussion to a lightbulb forum."

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