Changing A Lightbulb, A lesson in Posting?
And several to point out that the lamp was made by Lucas, and was never
intended to work in the first place!
Steve R.
"mikee" wrote in message
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And 12 to claim the credit really belongs to John Kerry for his "heroism"
in
RVN.
And 36 to sing "Rap on brother, the beats goes on"
Anonymous
Gary Owens wrote:
And 6 to blame the burnt out lite on Bush
And 6 to blame the burnt out lite on the NRA.
"Boris Beizer" wrote in message
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"Rufus" wrote in message
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I'm beginning to see the light...
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- Rufus
Steve Hubbard wrote:
A lesson in Posting.
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
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