On Mon, 18 Nov 2019 11:49:12 -0800, John Larkin wrote:

No, I meant an ordinary light bulb.

John means a lightbulb with a tungsten filament in it which burns very
brightly when a current is passed through it. You have to have attained
great age, like John and I, in order to remember such obsolete atrocities.



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