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20 Jan 06 - 02:32 PM (#1652137) Subject: BS: Forum members changing a light bulb From: Folkiedave How many forum members does it take to change a light bulb? Ironic if this is not the first time of posting!! 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 1 to move it to the Lighting section 2 to argue then move it to the Electricals section 7 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 stupid 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 search on light bulbs before posting questions about light bulbs" 1 to hijack the thread and ask how to change the horn 1 forum lurker to respond to the original post 6 months from now and start it all over again. |
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20 Jan 06 - 02:39 PM (#1652142) Subject: RE: BS: Forum members changing a light bulb From: gnu Thanks for shedding light on the subject. |
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20 Jan 06 - 02:45 PM (#1652148) Subject: RE: BS: Forum members changing a light bulb From: MMario only five times since the first posting in Dec of 98 - most recently in march of ought-five |
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20 Jan 06 - 02:48 PM (#1652150) Subject: RE: BS: Forum members changing a light bulb From: Emma B Shouldn't there be at least one to blame the previous lightbulb's failure on GWB? |
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20 Jan 06 - 02:48 PM (#1652151) Subject: RE: BS: Forum members changing a light bulb From: wysiwyg Like most posters, I didn't bother to read all of the first post (and certainly NOT the old thread), especially due to the lack of paragraph breaks. Anyway,in case it doesn't mention, add a few Catters to pray about it and then a few more to pray for the rest of it. :~) And a few more to protest prayer as a plot. Etceterally yours, ~Susan |
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20 Jan 06 - 02:51 PM (#1652155) Subject: RE: BS: Forum members changing a light bulb From: McGrath of Harlow "ought-five" - now that's an interesting variant. As in: In the year of Our Lord Eighteen hundred ought five... |
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20 Jan 06 - 02:53 PM (#1652157) Subject: RE: BS: Forum members changing a light bulb From: gnu What service provider were you connecting to the Café with in 1805? |
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20 Jan 06 - 02:55 PM (#1652159) Subject: RE: BS: Forum members changing a light bulb From: gnu Hmmm... wait a minute... sounds familiar... "We set sail from the cold Quay of Cork." ???? |
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20 Jan 06 - 02:57 PM (#1652160) Subject: RE: BS: Forum members changing a light bulb From: Jeri 1999 2000 Now you only need 3 more! |
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20 Jan 06 - 02:59 PM (#1652162) Subject: RE: BS: Forum members changing a light bulb From: Jeri Oops, MMario posted while I was looking for links. 2 more, now. |
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20 Jan 06 - 03:07 PM (#1652165) Subject: RE: BS: Forum members changing a light bulb From: gnu McGrath... is that the one? |
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20 Jan 06 - 03:11 PM (#1652169) Subject: RE: BS: Forum members changing a light bulb From: John MacKenzie Does Cork keep Ireland afloat? Giok |
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20 Jan 06 - 03:11 PM (#1652171) Subject: RE: BS: Forum members changing a light bulb From: jimmyt Well, it is the first time I have read it and I thought it was quite funny. Now to just integrate thongs with lightbulbs on them or a special thong expressly for wearing for the bulb changing experience...... |
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20 Jan 06 - 03:15 PM (#1652176) Subject: RE: BS: Forum members changing a light bulb From: Old Guy 25 forum members to blame George W. Bush for letting it burn out. |
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20 Jan 06 - 03:22 PM (#1652183) Subject: RE: BS: Forum members changing a light bulb From: Folkiedave Bugger - and sorry. Blame it on a flaky Mudcat whereby I couldn't wait for the search which I made to download. 1 to blame flaky mudcat for something or other. |
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20 Jan 06 - 03:23 PM (#1652184) Subject: RE: BS: Forum members changing a light bulb From: Rapparee And someone like me to ask if it had to be changed because it wasn't planted deeply enough. |
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20 Jan 06 - 03:24 PM (#1652186) Subject: RE: BS: Forum members changing a light bulb From: Dave (the ancient mariner) Well Old Guy you know the controversy over the fact that the Light Bulb manufacturing Company just started building a factory in Texas; and that GWB and family own the najority of shares in it. Right now Ted Kennedy is telling the media that they make sub standard light bulbs and make a huge profit on replacements. They also use more power than regular bilbs, and thats to support the oil companies. All we need now is to dig up the dirt on the predominantly Mormon/Evangelical Christian managment hiring practises and we should get a good thread going here... Yours, Aye. Dave |
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20 Jan 06 - 03:26 PM (#1652188) Subject: RE: BS: Forum members changing a light bulb From: MMario five time in seven years isn't bad - it's when they get posted within DAYS of each other that is horrendous. another list I'm on the same item has now been posted three times in the space of three hours. |
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20 Jan 06 - 03:34 PM (#1652194) Subject: RE: BS: Forum members changing a light bulb From: artbrooks One Forum member who is otherwise totally ignorant of light bulbs to count up to 100. |
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20 Jan 06 - 03:49 PM (#1652203) Subject: RE: BS: Forum members changing a light bulb From: Scotus One forum member to change the bulb - another twenty to say "that should be ME up there". |
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20 Jan 06 - 03:53 PM (#1652206) Subject: RE: BS: Forum members changing a light bulb From: open mike and another member to point out that we all should be using energy efficiant Fourescent light bulbs and not contributing to the requirement to have more coal miners dig more coal to generate electricity for lights. |
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20 Jan 06 - 03:54 PM (#1652207) Subject: RE: BS: Forum members changing a light bulb From: CarolC I don't believe in light bulbs. What a bunch of superstitious twits. |
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20 Jan 06 - 04:01 PM (#1652215) Subject: RE: BS: Forum members changing a light bulb From: open mike www.energystar.gov/index.cfm?c=cfls.pr_cfls and one to post a link to energy star compact flourescent lites and another to make a blickie out of that link? |
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20 Jan 06 - 04:02 PM (#1652218) Subject: RE: BS: Forum members changing a light bulb From: jimmyt another to spell fluorescent |
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20 Jan 06 - 04:02 PM (#1652221) Subject: RE: BS: Forum members changing a light bulb From: MMario Dear CarolC aka Mrs. JacktheSailor: ahem. WARN a guy, okay? I can't keep replacing keyboards. |
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20 Jan 06 - 04:05 PM (#1652225) Subject: RE: BS: Forum members changing a light bulb From: Joybell "Put a Light in Every Country Window la la la la la la la la la" Someone to turn it into a music thread. |
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20 Jan 06 - 04:29 PM (#1652245) Subject: RE: BS: Forum members changing a light bulb From: John MacKenzie One without a sense of humus, and one to say "Hiya Cynth" in a suggestive manner. G. |
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20 Jan 06 - 04:41 PM (#1652261) Subject: RE: BS: Forum members changing a light bulb From: Micca and how about 6 to complain because its Electric???? |
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20 Jan 06 - 04:43 PM (#1652263) Subject: RE: BS: Forum members changing a light bulb From: autolycus And one to ask. One to say stop blaming Blair for the light bulb situation. One to say the answer is 42. " " " stop blaming Bush for the light bulb " " " " " " Al-Qaida " " " " " " " " it's all toooooooooo addictive. " " " "Get a life !!" " " " "Your missing the point." AND surely one to say," I'm sure someone wrote a song about light-bulb changing - it's just that I can't remember the words or the tune or if I just dreamt it." and maybe someone to say,"That's lovely. I've been inspired to write that song." Perhaps ther real question is, how many Mudcatters has it taken to change a light-bulb ALL OTHER THINGS BEING EQUAL I'm sorry for the outburst. Auto. |
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20 Jan 06 - 04:56 PM (#1652272) Subject: RE: BS: Forum members changing a light bulb From: artbrooks Change the light bulb? Don't bother...I'll just sit in the dark and suffer. |
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20 Jan 06 - 05:04 PM (#1652275) Subject: RE: BS: Forum members changing a light bulb From: Little Hawk "Keep a good head and carry a light bulb." - Bob Dylan |
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20 Jan 06 - 05:28 PM (#1652289) Subject: RE: BS: Forum members changing a light bulb From: Janie A bunch of Mudcatters worked at the same factory. One of them, Giok, was a little soft in the head. One afternoon the foreman walked through, looked up at the rafters and noticed Giok was up there with his knees hooked over a beam, hanging upside-down. "What in tarnation do you think you're doing up there?" exclaimed the foreman. "Get down from there right now or you're fired!" "I'm a lightbulb," asserted Giok. "Lightbulb my *ss," shouted the foreman, "You've got 1 minute to get back down here and get to work." Giok just kept hanging there, looking down at the man. The foreman looked at his watch and counted down the seconds to one minute. "That's it." He said. "Get down from there, get your things and get out. You are out of a job as of now." Giok climbed down from the rafters and headed for his locker. Much to the forman's surprise, all the other Mudcatters stopped what they were doing, and followed Giok out. "Wait! Stop! Where do the rest of you think you're going. Get back to machines and quit wasting production time." The 'Catters just kept walking as the foreman fumed and fussed. "I don't understand why the rest of you are walking out. You can see he wasn't doing his job!" As the Mudcat crew walked out the door, one of them turned to the foreman and said "What did you think would happen? Surely you didn't expect us all to keep working in the dark!" (ok, ok...I'll leave.....Janie) |
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20 Jan 06 - 05:34 PM (#1652296) Subject: RE: BS: Forum members changing a light bulb From: The Fooles Troupe ... and 50 posts abusing the local foul mouthed troll for joining in... |
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20 Jan 06 - 05:38 PM (#1652299) Subject: RE: BS: Forum members changing a light bulb From: frogprince This little light of mine, I'm gonna let it shine... |
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20 Jan 06 - 05:43 PM (#1652303) Subject: RE: BS: Forum members changing a light bulb From: GUEST,leeneia How about the post recommending a brand of organic, herbal light bulb produced without chemicals? There's got to be at least one of those. |
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20 Jan 06 - 05:50 PM (#1652315) Subject: RE: BS: Forum members changing a light bulb From: GUEST,Zoroaster I don't need no stinkin' light bulb, I cast my own illuminating glow. That Johnny-come-lately, Jesus, wants me for a sunbeam. |
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20 Jan 06 - 06:40 PM (#1652333) Subject: RE: BS: Forum members changing a light bulb From: Peace Did anybody tell the lightbulb to f#ck off? |
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20 Jan 06 - 07:10 PM (#1652356) Subject: RE: BS: Forum members changing a light bulb From: artbrooks Does # mean "li"? |
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20 Jan 06 - 07:20 PM (#1652362) Subject: RE: BS: Forum members changing a light bulb From: Peace Yep! |
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20 Jan 06 - 07:26 PM (#1652375) Subject: RE: BS: Forum members changing a light bulb From: bobad Now now peace, we've all got to get together and give it a group {{{{{{{{{{{hug}}}}}}}}}}}} the poor little light bulb's burnt out. |
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20 Jan 06 - 07:27 PM (#1652377) Subject: RE: BS: Forum members changing a light bulb From: Peace LOL |
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20 Jan 06 - 07:30 PM (#1652379) Subject: RE: BS: Forum members changing a light bulb From: Dead Horse How much candle power does my candle emit if it is one of those big ones that weighs approximately 10 times the weight of one of those ordinary ones you get in the hardware shop? Or should I use one of those special ones that kill mosquitos? Or not? Eh? |
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20 Jan 06 - 07:32 PM (#1652381) Subject: RE: BS: Forum members changing a light bulb From: Peace Absolutely! |
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20 Jan 06 - 07:34 PM (#1652384) Subject: RE: BS: Forum members changing a light bulb From: frogprince Any candle will kill a mosquito, if you watch for the mosquito to land and you can swing the candle fast enough. |
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20 Jan 06 - 07:40 PM (#1652390) Subject: RE: BS: Forum members changing a light bulb From: Peace Light a candle. When the mosquito comes near, take a can of Raid and spray the little b###ard. When it falls to the floor, squish it with your foot. Then, using the ball end of a metalwork hammer, swat it a few more times until it blends into the carpet. Then blow the candle out. |
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20 Jan 06 - 07:56 PM (#1652409) Subject: RE: BS: Forum members changing a light bulb From: Don Firth And then the mosquito regains consciousness a few hours later while you are asleep, limps over to your bed, crawls up onto it, then onto you. Since it can't fly anymore, there is no warning high-pitched whine to alert you of its presence. It inserts its siphon into your jugular vein, drains you until you lay there dried out and wrinkled like a raisin as it limps off, sloshing and gurgle (and snickering) over the horizon. Damned things are hard to kill! Don Firth |
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20 Jan 06 - 07:58 PM (#1652412) Subject: RE: BS: Forum members changing a light bulb From: Leadfingers Surely there would have to be a post referring to the Light Bulbs in The Windward Club in St Albans ? |
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20 Jan 06 - 08:00 PM (#1652415) Subject: RE: BS: Forum members changing a light bulb From: Peace I ain't gonna sleep well tonight, Don. |
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20 Jan 06 - 08:41 PM (#1652442) Subject: RE: BS: Forum members changing a light bulb From: Azizi at least 3 'Catters to opine about the esotric meaning of light & darkness and the symbolism of the light bulb, and the connotations worldwide of colors of lights and the myths about the creation of light {Are there virgin lights?}. |
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20 Jan 06 - 09:05 PM (#1652459) Subject: RE: BS: Forum members changing a light bulb From: Peace One cannot change the lightbulb unless it WANTS to change. |
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20 Jan 06 - 09:23 PM (#1652469) Subject: RE: BS: Forum members changing a light bulb From: bobad And who better to tell it that it wants to change than Mudcatters. |
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20 Jan 06 - 09:29 PM (#1652470) Subject: RE: BS: Forum members changing a light bulb From: Azizi At least one 'Catter to link a song that kinda sorta fits the subject: Candle? Did somebody say candle? It is better to light just one little candle Than to stumble in the dark. Better far that you light just one little candle, All you need is a tiny spark. If we'd all say a prayer that the world would be free, A wonderful dawn of a new day we'd see... And if everyone lit just one little candle, What a bright world this would be. When the day is dark and dreary And we know not where to go; Don't let your heart go weary, Just keep this thought in mind... It is better to light just one little candle Than to stumble in the dark. Better far that you light just one little candle, All you need is a tiny spark. If we'd all say a prayer that the world would be free, A wonderful dawn of a new day we'd see... And if everyone lit just one little candle, What a bright world this would be. Author Unknown a href="http://www.walkthroughlife.com/personal/pqv/poem/candle.htm">http://www.walkthroughlife.com/personal/pqv/poem/candle.htm |
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20 Jan 06 - 09:37 PM (#1652475) Subject: RE: BS: Forum members changing a light bulb From: Don Firth Peace, Kevlar Pajamas might offer at least a little protection. . . . I don't know about mosquitoes, but garlic is supposed to repel vampires. Don Firth |
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20 Jan 06 - 09:43 PM (#1652479) Subject: RE: BS: Forum members changing a light bulb From: Azizi at least one 'Catter to post a variant of a song that was previously posted {adding demographical information} and commenting that the version that she or he sung is the right one, or makes more sense than, or is better than any previously posted version. For instance... when I learned "It's Better To Light Just One Little Candle" in junior high school {1950s Atlantic City, New Jersey} we sang "When the day is dark and dreary And your way is hard to find Don't let your heart go weary, Just keep this thought in mind." -snip- I think our version is the right one. As you can see it nbot only makes more sense, it also rhymes in contrast to the version that was posted earlier. "When the day is dark and dreary And we know not where to go; Don't let your heart go weary, Just keep this thought in mind... -snip- Go/mind? Naw. It just doesn't work. |
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20 Jan 06 - 09:47 PM (#1652481) Subject: RE: BS: Forum members changing a light bulb From: Azizi Then there's at least one catter who messes up the clicky link thingy and {attempts to} correct it... Download Midi & Lyrics to "One Little Candle" by clicking HERE |
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20 Jan 06 - 09:52 PM (#1652484) Subject: RE: BS: Forum members changing a light bulb From: Peace Hey. If one candle is good, the light-energy release from a fusion explosion will be like, ya know? |
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20 Jan 06 - 09:53 PM (#1652487) Subject: RE: BS: Forum members changing a light bulb From: Peace "Kevlar Pajamas" Don, you have just opened an entrepreneurial door. |
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20 Jan 06 - 10:02 PM (#1652496) Subject: RE: BS: Forum members changing a light bulb From: Don Firth Yeah, I was thinking sorta like Dr. Denton sleepers, the kind with the feet in them. The entrepeneurial door would be in the back, with buttons? Don Firth |
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20 Jan 06 - 11:25 PM (#1652544) Subject: RE: BS: Forum members changing a light bulb From: mack/misophist How about the poster - quite necessary, essential even - who has to point out that flurescent tubes are a poor substitute due to the mercury they contain? |
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20 Jan 06 - 11:56 PM (#1652563) Subject: RE: BS: Forum members changing a light bulb From: Peace I think first we have to establish beyond any doubt that a thread about lightbulbs really deserves this kind of and if so, then there you have it. |
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21 Jan 06 - 12:41 AM (#1652591) Subject: RE: BS: Forum members changing a light bulb From: LadyJean 4 rightwing posters to let the rest of us know that it's because of us 60s leftist types that the lightbulb burned out in the first place. 1 poster to ask if anyone knows any good lighbulb songs for the children's science play. 5 posters to post lightbulb songs. 6 posters to post lightbulb jokes. 7 posters to take offence at the blatant ethnic humor in most lightbulb stories. 1 to try to turn the post to candles. |
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21 Jan 06 - 12:51 AM (#1652601) Subject: RE: BS: Forum members changing a light bulb From: Peace Speaking of which, I really like the song by Pirates of the Mississippi entitled "Feed Jake". |
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21 Jan 06 - 05:20 AM (#1652652) Subject: RE: BS: Forum members changing a light bulb From: John MacKenzie One Scotsman to remind you all that you might never have had light bulbs at all were it not for Thomas Alva Edison. It's amazing what you can do with an Edison screw, and an incandescent filament! Giok |
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21 Jan 06 - 05:49 AM (#1652658) Subject: RE: BS: Forum members changing a light bulb From: gnu Five times, you say? Did it work as well each other time? |
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21 Jan 06 - 06:07 AM (#1652666) Subject: RE: BS: Forum members changing a light bulb From: Paul Burke The correct term is "luminaire active element", and in the EC it's covered by the RoHS directive (Directive 2002/95/EC), the WEE Directive (2002/96/EC), the Low Voltage Directive (73/23/EEC and amendment 93/68/EEC), the Electromagnetic Compatibility Directive (89/336/EEC, 92/31/EC, 93/68/EEC, 2004/108/EC), the Energy efficiency requirements for ballasts for fluorescent lighting Directive (2000/55/EC), and the General product safety Directive (2001/95/EC), amongst others. |
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21 Jan 06 - 06:12 AM (#1652669) Subject: RE: BS: Forum members changing a light bulb From: Mr Red er - was it Mr Edison who invented the electric light bulb or was it one of his famous "employee he couuld call on to prove he invented it" or was it Sylvanus P Thompson, or Mr Osram who really invented it. There speaks an electronic engineer who prefers LEDs |
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21 Jan 06 - 06:33 AM (#1652677) Subject: RE: BS: Forum members changing a light bulb From: Don(Wyziwyg)T The one that worries me is the WEE directive. In my experience, wee and electrical units do not go well together. Don T. |
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21 Jan 06 - 08:13 AM (#1652714) Subject: RE: BS: Forum members changing a light bulb From: Mr Red call me a pedant but strictly speaking energy efficient Luminaire Active Elements are flourescent TUBES but there goes the language rules again - even politicians can't keep the meanings pure. |
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21 Jan 06 - 09:16 AM (#1652730) Subject: RE: BS: Forum members changing a light bulb From: artbrooks ...one EE to assert that Edison didn't invent the light bulb.... |
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21 Jan 06 - 09:47 AM (#1652736) Subject: RE: BS: Forum members changing a light bulb From: Azizi It takes "x" number of 'Catters to share commonly known and uncommonly known information directly or remotely related to the subject of the thread [as well as tangential information and thoughts related to the subject]. Not that I'm complaining-I'm guilty as charged. Sometimes sharing background and tangential information can make threads more interesting. But other times... I'm just sayin... |
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21 Jan 06 - 10:03 AM (#1652742) Subject: RE: BS: Forum members changing a light bulb From: Azizi ummm, did I say the same thing twice in my first sentence? I re-read what I wrote and indirectly related=tangentially related... mean the same thing, right? Sorry. 20 lashes with a wet noodle. -not that I'm a sadist or anything...and not that being a sadist or a masochist has anything what so ever to do with the subject of this thread, but I'm just sayin... |
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21 Jan 06 - 10:04 AM (#1652745) Subject: RE: BS: Forum members changing a light bulb From: Azizi I hasten to say I'm not a masochist either. |
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21 Jan 06 - 10:08 AM (#1652748) Subject: RE: BS: Forum members changing a light bulb From: Duane D. What about the posters starting parallel or parody threads such as: BS: Lightbulbs changing Forum members |
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21 Jan 06 - 10:12 AM (#1652750) Subject: RE: BS: Forum members changing a light bulb From: Azizi Yeah I like the way that happens. Go for it Duane D! That sounds like an interesting subjects. How have lightbulbs {or a lightbulb moment} changed forum members? |
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21 Jan 06 - 10:16 AM (#1652752) Subject: RE: BS: Forum members changing a light bulb From: Azizi Here's another addition-forum members submitting a correction to the typo{s}in the post they just submitted... subjects=subject. |
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21 Jan 06 - 10:19 AM (#1652756) Subject: RE: BS: Forum members changing a light bulb From: Duane D. BS: Have lightbulbs made Forum members brighter? |
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21 Jan 06 - 10:25 AM (#1652760) Subject: RE: BS: Forum members changing a light bulb From: Duane D. I suppose that could be documented mathematically. (reminds me a little of the time in back in high school physics class when we were studying gravity and had to calculate the force of the sun on uranus) |
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21 Jan 06 - 11:51 AM (#1652817) Subject: RE: BS: Forum members changing a light bulb From: artbrooks Depends a lot on whether or not you go in for nude sun bathing, Duane. |
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21 Jan 06 - 12:48 PM (#1652863) Subject: RE: BS: Forum members changing a light bulb From: John MacKenzie Eh watt! G. |
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21 Jan 06 - 01:34 PM (#1652887) Subject: RE: BS: Forum members changing a light bulb From: Bill D one person to note that even OLD bulbs should be preserved and honored I, myself, have 4-5 unused WWII 'blackout' bulbs with a plastic coating over all but the tip. |
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21 Jan 06 - 01:37 PM (#1652892) Subject: RE: BS: Forum members changing a light bulb From: Bill D like this |
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21 Jan 06 - 01:42 PM (#1652896) Subject: RE: BS: Forum members changing a light bulb From: Peace Does anyone know if there are lightbulbs on e-Bay? |
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21 Jan 06 - 01:53 PM (#1652902) Subject: RE: BS: Forum members changing a light bulb From: Bill D oh, I know they occasionally show up....it's not the biggest item for collectors, but when I first researched my bulbs several years ago, there were eBay items. |
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21 Jan 06 - 02:12 PM (#1652914) Subject: RE: BS: Forum members changing a light bulb From: Peace See, that's the kinda thingfor which a guy could spend days researching and still not find a definitive answer. But ask on the 'cat and BOOM, Bob's yer uncle! |
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21 Jan 06 - 02:16 PM (#1652915) Subject: RE: BS: Forum members changing a light bulb From: Peace BTW, a neat insult that is sometimes used: Vingt-cinq watt. For example, it would aptly be said about Bush. |
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21 Jan 06 - 02:32 PM (#1652920) Subject: RE: BS: Forum members changing a light bulb From: SINSULL 1 well meaning clone to change the title and draw Shambles into the discussion. |
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21 Jan 06 - 02:34 PM (#1652923) Subject: RE: BS: Forum members changing a light bulb From: Peace Now you've done it! |
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21 Jan 06 - 02:36 PM (#1652926) Subject: RE: BS: Forum members changing a light bulb From: John MacKenzie to what? Cutting and Pasting Light Bulbs perhaps? Giok ☺☻ |
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21 Jan 06 - 02:45 PM (#1652933) Subject: RE: BS: Forum members changing a light bulb From: Peace ☺ ☻ ☺ ☻ ☺ ☻ ☺ ☻ ☺ ☻ ☺☻ . |
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21 Jan 06 - 02:45 PM (#1652934) Subject: RE: BS: Forum members changing a light bulb From: Peace I have no idea what I was tryin' to do there. |
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21 Jan 06 - 02:51 PM (#1652937) Subject: RE: BS: Forum members changing a light bulb From: John MacKenzie Neither did we Bruce! G. ♪♀♫☼► |
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21 Jan 06 - 03:39 PM (#1652990) Subject: RE: BS: Forum members changing a light bulb From: Peace LOLOLOL |
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21 Jan 06 - 04:13 PM (#1653008) Subject: RE: BS: Forum members changing a light bulb From: Bill D ♂+♀+♥=☺ |
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21 Jan 06 - 04:17 PM (#1653013) Subject: RE: BS: Forum members changing a light bulb From: Peace Help me on this one, Bill. Are you saying that a guy and a gal get babies by playing hearts? |
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21 Jan 06 - 04:19 PM (#1653014) Subject: RE: BS: Forum members changing a light bulb From: Peace Would bridge work as well? |
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21 Jan 06 - 04:22 PM (#1653016) Subject: RE: BS: Forum members changing a light bulb From: autolycus Just had a quick look in some ref.bks. re inventor. (Oh, goodness, someone didn't did they? Given that there is a slight oversimplification in the realm of invention (many contribut something), a couple including a chronology by the US journalist James Trager award the palm to Sir Joseph Swan. He demonstrated the first 5th Feb 1877, a few monthe before Edison came up with his variant. Edison patented first, which is often the reason for thwe "first" attribution in the world of invention. Auto. |
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21 Jan 06 - 04:31 PM (#1653025) Subject: RE: BS: Forum members changing a light bulb From: Peace Why was it called the lightbulb? Did they weight it? Light as compared to what? If it had weighed twelve pounds, would it have been called the heavybulb? |
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21 Jan 06 - 04:41 PM (#1653034) Subject: RE: BS: Forum members changing a light bulb From: Troll You are all still using light bulbs? How droll. troll |
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21 Jan 06 - 05:00 PM (#1653045) Subject: RE: BS: Forum members changing a light bulb From: John MacKenzie 100 watts |
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21 Jan 06 - 05:29 PM (#1653058) Subject: RE: BS: Forum members changing a light bulb From: Joybell I already put an appropriate song here and nobody noticed! All hurt and offended. Not going to look at this thread anymore. No more cheers or Joy |
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21 Jan 06 - 05:44 PM (#1653070) Subject: RE: BS: Forum members changing a light bulb From: Peace And a work of art it was, too, Joybell. |
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21 Jan 06 - 05:46 PM (#1653071) Subject: RE: BS: Forum members changing a light bulb From: Joybell Ah! Thanks Peace. With and from Joy |
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21 Jan 06 - 05:48 PM (#1653074) Subject: RE: BS: Forum members changing a light bulb From: Peace This light's for you, Joybell. |
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21 Jan 06 - 05:53 PM (#1653077) Subject: RE: BS: Forum members changing a light bulb From: open mike i jut remembered my father had several large glass globes from light bulbs that he would empty out, open up and fill with water then suspend in the sun..they would invert the image of the view that you could see through them. He also had a box where he kept bulbs batteries fuses, etc. which he labelled "light bulbs, to replace dark bulbs" He really liked to play with words....nice to remember him. He also had some of those old bulbs filled with confetti for decoration. |
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21 Jan 06 - 06:00 PM (#1653082) Subject: RE: BS: Forum members changing a light bulb From: Bunnahabhain Someone to misunderstand something, take offense and storm off in a huff... Have we blamed bush yet? |
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21 Jan 06 - 06:07 PM (#1653089) Subject: RE: BS: Forum members changing a light bulb From: Peace "Someone to misunderstand something, take offense and storm off in a huff..." Well, if yer gonna be like that, up yers. I am gone! |
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21 Jan 06 - 06:08 PM (#1653090) Subject: RE: BS: Forum members changing a light bulb From: Peace I am storming off, here. Can't find a huff anywhere. Does it have wheels? |
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21 Jan 06 - 06:23 PM (#1653104) Subject: RE: BS: Forum members changing a light bulb From: Joybell OOOOOOOOOH! Mine to keep? Thank you Peace. We've got several Hufs here. They left the second f behind in Germany I believe. Have to ask Mrs Huf about it next visit to town. Cheers, Joy |
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21 Jan 06 - 06:26 PM (#1653111) Subject: RE: BS: Forum members changing a light bulb From: The Fooles Troupe I'll huff and I'll puff, and I'll blow your light bulb away! |
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21 Jan 06 - 06:30 PM (#1653116) Subject: RE: BS: Forum members changing a light bulb From: John MacKenzie His huff arrived, and he went off in it. G |
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21 Jan 06 - 06:33 PM (#1653119) Subject: RE: BS: Forum members changing a light bulb From: Azizi And there's the a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/">http://www.huffingtonpost.com/ |
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21 Jan 06 - 07:32 PM (#1653130) Subject: RE: BS: Forum members changing a light bulb From: Azizi I'll try one more time for that link: The Huffington Post |
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21 Jan 06 - 08:53 PM (#1653156) Subject: RE: BS: Forum members changing a light bulb From: Bill D "His huff arrived, and he went off in it.".. ohhh...neat! I always liked Huffmobiles! |
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22 Jan 06 - 12:53 AM (#1653259) Subject: RE: BS: Forum members changing a light bulb From: frogprince If you add up all the energy and resources consumed in the manufacture of a light bulb, from the high-temperature processes of refining metal ores and making glass on down through all rest, then add the cost of electricity and the ecological damage caused by producing it, how can any morally concious person justify the use of lightbulbs when candles are available as an alternative? |
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22 Jan 06 - 01:00 AM (#1653268) Subject: RE: BS: Forum members changing a light bulb From: Peace OK. I am convinced. Tonight I will try reading by the light of my luminous watch dials. Let you know tomorrow how it turns out. |
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22 Jan 06 - 01:45 AM (#1653287) Subject: RE: BS: Forum members changing a light bulb From: GUEST,dianavan We all know that the lightbulb was really invented in Canada but the Americans stole it and gave the credit to Edison. Since then, the accumulated debt plus interest from that one stolen bulb is over 6 billion dollars U.S. The U.S. owes us bigtime! |
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22 Jan 06 - 02:50 AM (#1653306) Subject: RE: BS: Forum members changing a light bulb From: Bob Bolton G'day Joybell, "I already put an appropriate song here and nobody noticed! All hurt and offended. Not going to look at this thread anymore. No more cheers or Joy " Ah ... but who, in these aliens climes, recognises ... or even knows of ... Don Henderson (and all his great songs)... ? Regard(les)s, Bob |
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22 Jan 06 - 05:40 AM (#1653322) Subject: RE: BS: Forum members changing a light bulb From: autolycus GUEST dianavan. Source please, or I'm off in a huff. "If that's too soon, I'l leave in a minute and a huff." (No prizes) Auto |
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22 Jan 06 - 06:10 AM (#1653325) Subject: RE: BS: Forum members changing a light bulb From: John MacKenzie It's all a filament of your imagination. G ☺☻ |
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22 Jan 06 - 09:39 AM (#1653406) Subject: RE: BS: Forum members changing a light bulb From: Bunnahabhain It's better to burn out than fade away... |
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22 Jan 06 - 05:55 PM (#1653794) Subject: RE: BS: Forum members changing a light bulb From: The Fooles Troupe On the subject of blackouts... The April Fooles Day Fooles Troupe Internet Blackout Page |
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23 Jan 06 - 01:30 AM (#1653976) Subject: RE: BS: Forum members changing a light bulb From: Gurney 500 contributers (who can spell colour) to complain about those stupid screw-base bulbs which leave their screws in the fitment. 1000 contributers (who think it should be spelled color) to defend them because Edison invented them. "And anyway, sometimes bayonet-fittings do, too." And Peace, who is selling tickets to his show where he fires aerosols at candles, and burns the theatre down. |
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23 Jan 06 - 07:10 AM (#1654063) Subject: RE: BS: Forum members changing a light bulb From: autolycus And one to explain what in heaven's name the connection between light bulbs and arses can possibly be, one to ask who invented light-bulb jokes, when, where, why, and whether? and one to realise that we might not hAve enough catters to do all the above. and one to ask if the bulbs fall out because of a faulty thread, or, as it's known in the trade, a thread-drift. Auto. |
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23 Jan 06 - 07:55 AM (#1654086) Subject: RE: BS: Forum members changing a light bulb From: Mr Red artbrooks was that Edison quip aimed in any specific direction? If so let me pedantically point-out I am an MIEE OOoooooooooooooooer. |
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23 Jan 06 - 03:11 PM (#1654274) Subject: RE: BS: Forum members changing a light bulb From: Q (Frank Staplin) All these posts but not this old PC joke. In Alberta I first heard it while taking coffee in a Hutterite Colony, largely surrounded by farms owned by descendants of Ukrainian immigrants. How many Ukrainians does it take to change a lightbulb? Fifty-one. One to hold the bulb and fifty to turn the house around. The joke was told about Hutterites in the Ukrainian households. This worked as a Blonde joke or hillbilly joke or mechanic joke or civil servant joke or- pick your category. But I'm sure everyone has heard it by now. |
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23 Jan 06 - 03:22 PM (#1654280) Subject: RE: BS: Forum members changing a light bulb From: gnu Civil servants? Do you know why the federal buildings in Ottawa have yellow lines painted in the hallways and stairwells? So that those who are leaving early don't bump into those that are coming in late. |
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24 Jan 06 - 10:12 AM (#1654802) Subject: RE: BS: Forum members changing a light bulb From: MartinRyan For the Irish among us: "How many Comhaltas members does it take to change a light bulb?" Scared voice in the background: "Change? Change? Did somebody mention "Change""?! Regards |
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24 Jan 06 - 01:15 PM (#1654933) Subject: RE: BS: Forum members changing a light bulb From: Kaleea Wot watts? Whur'z them thar blue clickiez thet showz us'nz them hunnert n'plenty year old light bulbz thet'z still aburnin' in sum myewzeeyumms summwhurz? Why have we had no mention of Cap'n Kirk yet!?? Watts the 'Cat coming to these days? (exasperation!) |
