Oh, yeah, and seven to plonk to make the masses shiver with mortal fear.

"profft" wrote in message
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PLONK

"Stormin Mormonn" wrote in message
...
How many members does it take........
...to change a lightbulb??

1 to change the light bulb and 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

4 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