How many forummembers ...

[Nuka-sama]

Such delicious irony

 

[philippe]

_ .. does it take to change a lightbulb?

1 to change the light bulb

1 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

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 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

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 new forum member to respond to the original post 6 months from now and start it all over again

sad, but it's almost true

I agree , but it went downhill after the anal rentative thing...

btw it's not forummembers, it is forum-members

Oh so true!

I used to work in the forum-industry and it's actually posters.

No, a poster is what you hang on the wall, you don't hang forum members on the wall, do you?

Dont you have anything else to do exept think of these numbers and such? just kidding, just kidding.

Dont you have anything else to do exept think of these numbers and such? just kidding, just kidding.

I'm busting a gut laughing! Sadly all what you posted is true...

This is quite true; forum-members share an obsession with their forums

That is what we do to banned posters.


"53 to flame the spell checkers"
Or one super moderator to official supress spelling police.

And by the way, I, contextually in the real estate business, also uses the terms 'lamp' and 'lamp holder' for light bulb and socket.

Funny and oh so true I might even say that it beats how many dogs it takes to change a lightbulb.

Well, it only requires one dog, Lassie!

Now if Lefty thinks it is funny it is funny.

Oficially.

Not sure about hanging posters, though.

1 forum member to say how do we do it in Portugal.

1 forum member to say how the byz did it and, BTW, saying that Cataphrats should be their UU...

39 to say byz don't have that.

3 to say: "Ok, but he has spoken of that horseys for much less..."

... And one member to report that the thread is [spam]

and finally 1 mod to close the thread.

where would Curt be?

And one forum member who wonders what a lightbulb is?

....and 1 to say he doesn't believe in lightbulbs and it cannot be proven that the lightbulb existed in the first place!

Well lets see here.... the defination for forum is:

A public meeting or presentation involving a discussion usually among experts and often including audience participation.

The the Defination for member is:

A part of a plant

Then the defination for poster:

One that posts bills or notices.

So either we are a part of a plant and an expert.... or we post bills and notices....

Strider has misspelled definition three times.

I am a part of a plant, therefore I am a poster.

Expert needed to make me complete !

And countless posters to say just say or
i'm serios i see countless of these kinds of replies

Well....what else are you going to do when something's funny?

good one

That's hysterical! Soooo true though. :

and one poster complaining about the predictability and general lameness of the other posters.

and one succesfully (?) jacking the thread:

A nun asks the question: "How many Protestants does it change to change a light bulb?"

None, because they all live in eternal darkness.

Just to be ahead of those questioning the relevancy of changing lightbulbs in relation to this forum: it is relevant because without the lightbulb in this forum I would not be able to hit the right keys and probably post gibberish resulting in all sorts of holiday proposals by the mods.

Arrghh! It's back agian!

More poster stuipidity here!

Well, at least I'll be able to spam another post here.

Conversation between two dinosaurs:

Dinosaur #1: How many economists does it take to screw in a lightbulb?

Dinosaur #2: What is an economist?

D #1: A flunkie mathematician who tries to predict the population of kangaroos in Australia. But that's not important and dont ask what a kangaroo is.

D #2: I don't know. How many?

D #1: 10 economists and one grad student.
1 to make a model. 1 to run the regression. 1 to test the hypothesis. 1 to interpret the result. 1 to conclude on how to screw it on. 1 grad student to screw it on, and 5 economists trying to fight off the dinosaurs trying to eat them.

Moderator Action: Quit spamming.
Please read the forum rules: http://forums.civfanatics.com/showthread.php?t=422889

me too

I think the light bulb is just another tool used by our government to keep us totally dependant on electricity.



BTW: mee three

me four.

attention:

i have just changed a lightbulb (or light bulb)

DOUBLE POST IGNORE

great post btw!

Darkshade does.

me five!

Do I have to wait six months?

Me Tarzan

And what if I'm six months late?


And for the sake of distraction...


Q: How many surrealists does it take to change a lightbulb?

A: A fish!

One hell of a bump.

But I had forgotten about this one. Still as funny as it was two and a half years ago!

what a giant bump, this thread was started 2.5 years ago.

EDIT: crosspost

I remember some of those posters that have gone quiet now...

You should all be ashamed of yourselves. You are sitting here making jokes about lightbulbs while children are starving in Africa and the glaciers are melting because of global warming.

You know, their would be a lot less global warming if we stoped useing lightbulbs and went back to not haveing artificial light. The Bible(which is the ultimate source of fact) says that even fire is evil. Even the heat of our bodies is damageing the earth which is why I am glad the rapture will be here soon. What a releif that will be.

Beat me to it

Best bump evar.

Me too.

Me too

Seriously, what is it?

And another forum to quote the entire thread and type: LOL

You're starving in Africa?

Me too!

Me three!

That was good, and a bit suprising after I saw it was posted 2.5 years ago...

Awesome rik!

No no no!!! I have been involved in forums since I was yea-high and I know that it is perfectly acceptable to call them forum-members.

Great thread btw, and a great bump.

sad but true.

How many psychologists does it take to change a lightbulb?

Only one
But
the lightbulb must be willing to change!

So I need to change the light-bulb in the dining room. Should I get 60W or 75W?

burn the place out with a 100w

I'd like to point out that the OP is very optimistic about the debate not desending into a political or religious debate!

People who use 60W light bulbs are dirty hippie liberals who want the Islamofascists to win!

Does that work?

very good

You forgot:
7 to argue that light bulb posts are spam.
12 to flame said posters.
3 mods to say its all right to post about lightbulbs as long as the conversation dose not turn into obvious spam.
1 to thank the mods for the clarification

I disagree. I have just returned from a yearlong fact finding mission to Asia (you can read my report from the trip here). Anyway, the appropriate terms are "forum persons" and "online community members."

Spoiler :

everybody else is doin' it

Me too!

You shouldn't use lightbulbs. They're not energy efficient.

What kind of definition did we agree on for "lightbulb" or "light bulb."

Where do spotlights, candles, lanterns, signal fires, and lighthouses fit in this definition?

Get one of those energy-saver bulbs: it'll cost more to buy but use less energy to run, saving the world and enabling you to rant about short-termism and the evils of the marketplace and corporate responisbility and so on.

67 posters post sarcastic things about the guy who fixed the 'bulb'.

FredLC could change a million light bulbs in three seconds.

I am probably doing those spamming things...

OK, this needws to be moved to Off-Topic, because it's not relevent, not funny

Do you have a sence for humour at all?

It's SENSE OF HUMOUR, not SENCE FOR HUMOUR.

PLZ im SWEDISH!!

Maybe my humor is to subtle...

I think Rik Meleet knows best.

Perhaps.

I did my share... I added to:



and:

Some people don't need to screw in a lightbulb!

Me too!

Me too and too thirds!

What are your sources for all this? Nobody is posting sources for us to dismiss out of hand. And wikipedia doesn't count!

It's light bulb not lightbulb.

Are you sure it isn't called a "glow sphere"?

Well, best lightbulbs are roundhouse kicking Chuck Norris' picture in a glass container...Chuck Norris shine enough by picture to light a whole house.

Remember than the Sun is very big picture of Chuck Norris!!!

(and 1 to cite Chuck Norris as the best source for lightbulb making!!!)

(and 1 to comment on how Chuck Norris jokes are so last year.)


BTW, that's nearly a five year thread necromancy.... pretty good!

Nazi's used lightbulbs, and we all know what they did.

You guys have to be kidding me...
It's spelled light-bulbe, and anyway, the correct term is light-emitting filament.

I'm just posting to increase my Post Count!

I'm gonna report you.

I'm going to report you for posting that you are going to report someone instead of just reporting or PMing and thus getting more postcount with flawed grammar and spelling as 'gonna' is no word at all but the official term is 'going to' and that there must be one space between a period and a smiley and that a smiley is called a smiley and not a smilie and that you use incomprehensible words in your signature and might be going to call me a grammar nazi where you could be considered flaming but saying that aloud could be considered as trolling or flaming and that the wikipedia definition on trolls can be vandalised and thus can't be trusted so a proper website would be needed to tell what is trolling and what isn't and then mods getting angry from the loss of their authority of deciding who are trolling, spamming or flaming...

That's a run-on sentence, and as such must be categorized as trolling you also said PMing and that doesn't exist you can PM somebody or you can send them a PM but you can't say PMing also it's not cool to talk about peoples signatures and I'll report you again for that and anyway you didn't capitalize nazi and even though they suck they still have to be capitalized and you're being hypocritical since you spelled bucket wrong in your signature and in your title plus on top of that Wikipedia reverts back to normal if you change it for the worse so your entire argument is flawed so I'll report you again anyway.

This thread is now really for postcounts isnt it?

And it was a mod's creation!

Such delicious irony

me too! me too!

 

[zxcvbnm]

me too! me too!

Me Two hundred seventy-six quadrillion nine hundred four trillion hundred twelve billion eight hundred thirty million seven thousand and three quarters

 

[obliterate]

You missed a post.

post is an anagram of spot too.

 

[philippe]

You missed a post.

I ignored it, silly

 

[obliterate]

Sure you did.

 

[philippe]

Sure you did.

Sure I did!

 

[zxcvbnm]

Sure you did.

Enough spam, I endorse energy saving light emitting diods instead of lightbulbs!

 

[D0NIMATRIX]

Sure you did.

Enough spam, I endorse energy saving light emitting diods instead of lightbulbs!

How can you believe that LEDs save power? Quite clearly, this article explains how the merits of fiber optics better those of LEDs:

http://edu.totalnonsense.gov/Crap/UtterLies.html

 

[Enkidu Warrior]

The mod that eventually closes this post is joy-killing spoil sport. Boooooooooo!!!

 

[aronnax]

And before he/she does that im going to make this post!

 

[obliterate]

And before he/she does that im going to make this post!

I'll have the last laugh.

 

[D0NIMATRIX]

Theoretically, this is the joke forum, so they can't really close this thread until flaming and/or trolling occurs.

 

[EconomistBR]

Very funny, I know I arrived late.
These little things are what make online communites great.

For example, at Wikipedia, people a battling for over a week over whether the Nissan GT-R should be called a supercar.

Isn't that beautiful?

 

[D0NIMATRIX]

Very funny, I know I arrived late.
This little things are what make online communites great.

For example, at Wikipedia, people a battling for over a week over whether the Nissan GT-R should be called a supercar.

Isn't that beautiful?

Must I even say this?

"This little things are what make online communities great."

You obviously have some quarel with grammar, as 'this' is singular, and 'things' is plural. Gosh!

 

[EconomistBR]

Must I even say this?

"This little things are what make online communities great."

You obviously have some quarel with grammar, as 'this' is singular, and 'things' is plural. Gosh!

Thanks . I didn't revise the comment after I posted it.

 

[dot]

[...]
post is an anagram of spot too.

Thanks . I didn't revise the comment after I posted it.

Couldn't you have possibly meant "spotted it" ?

 

[Eran of Arcadia]

No, "spotted" and "posted" aren't anagrams, what with the extra "t" . . .

 

[dot]

No, "spotted" and "posted" aren't anagrams, what with the extra "t" . . .

That statement was only posted because you spotted that I stopped quoting you in my signature, right?

On a sidenote: I never claimed they were!

 

[obliterate]

No, "spotted" and "posted" aren't anagrams, what with the extra "t" . . .

No, but spot and post are.