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Default Screw in flourescent light bulbs.

On Wed, 10 Dec 2008 20:25:57 -0000, Michael A. Terrell wrote:


Peter Hucker wrote:

On Tue, 09 Dec 2008 20:17:29 -0000, Michael A. Terrell wrote:


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Peter Hucker wrote:

On Tue, 09 Dec 2008 19:14:26 -0000, Michael A. Terrell
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What part of CFL lamps overheating and catching on fire goes
right
over your head?

It only happens extremely occasionally.


A hell of a lot more often than with incandescent lamps. A lot of
incandescent fixtures are not designed for safe operation of CFL lamps.


PHucker boasts of having rigged his house with cobbled together 12V
lighting
run from solar panels and scrounged end of life car batteries, he most
likely had some scares using LV halogens in unsuitable enclosures.


With any luck, it will burn to the ground from his shoddy work.

He has a number of parrots loose in the house - it wouldn't be fair on
them!


So, everything there is a birdbrain?


Silly term "birdbrain" - most birds are more intelligent than a lot of people.



Sure they are, when compared to you.


That sentence just proves how childish you are.


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