BS: Forum members changing a light bulb

Subject: RE: BS: Forum members changing a light bulb
From: Kaleea
Date: 24 Jan 06 - 01:15 PM

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!)

Subject: RE: BS: Forum members changing a light bulb
From: MartinRyan
Date: 24 Jan 06 - 10:12 AM

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

Subject: RE: BS: Forum members changing a light bulb
From: gnu
Date: 23 Jan 06 - 03:22 PM

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.

Subject: RE: BS: Forum members changing a light bulb
From: Q (Frank Staplin)
Date: 23 Jan 06 - 03:11 PM

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.

Subject: RE: BS: Forum members changing a light bulb
From: Mr Red
Date: 23 Jan 06 - 07:55 AM

artbrooks
was that Edison quip aimed in any specific direction?

If so let me pedantically point-out I am an MIEE


OOoooooooooooooooer.

Subject: RE: BS: Forum members changing a light bulb
From: autolycus
Date: 23 Jan 06 - 07:10 AM

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.

Subject: RE: BS: Forum members changing a light bulb
From: Gurney
Date: 23 Jan 06 - 01:30 AM

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.

Subject: RE: BS: Forum members changing a light bulb
From: The Fooles Troupe
Date: 22 Jan 06 - 05:55 PM

On the subject of blackouts...
The April Fooles Day Fooles Troupe Internet Blackout Page

Subject: RE: BS: Forum members changing a light bulb
From: Bunnahabhain
Date: 22 Jan 06 - 09:39 AM

It's better to burn out than fade away...

Subject: RE: BS: Forum members changing a light bulb
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 22 Jan 06 - 06:10 AM

It's all a filament of your imagination.
G ☺☻

Subject: RE: BS: Forum members changing a light bulb
From: autolycus
Date: 22 Jan 06 - 05:40 AM

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

Subject: RE: BS: Forum members changing a light bulb
From: Bob Bolton
Date: 22 Jan 06 - 02:50 AM

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

Subject: RE: BS: Forum members changing a light bulb
From: GUEST,dianavan
Date: 22 Jan 06 - 01:45 AM

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!

Subject: RE: BS: Forum members changing a light bulb
From: Peace
Date: 22 Jan 06 - 01:00 AM

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.

Subject: RE: BS: Forum members changing a light bulb
From: frogprince
Date: 22 Jan 06 - 12:53 AM

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?

Subject: RE: BS: Forum members changing a light bulb
From: Bill D
Date: 21 Jan 06 - 08:53 PM

"His huff arrived, and he went off in it."..

ohhh...neat! I always liked Huffmobiles!

Subject: RE: BS: Forum members changing a light bulb
From: Azizi
Date: 21 Jan 06 - 07:32 PM

I'll try one more time for that link:

The Huffington Post

Subject: RE: BS: Forum members changing a light bulb
From: Azizi
Date: 21 Jan 06 - 06:33 PM

And there's the a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/">http://www.huffingtonpost.com/

Subject: RE: BS: Forum members changing a light bulb
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 21 Jan 06 - 06:30 PM

His huff arrived, and he went off in it.
G

Subject: RE: BS: Forum members changing a light bulb
From: The Fooles Troupe
Date: 21 Jan 06 - 06:26 PM

I'll huff and I'll puff, and I'll blow your light bulb away!

Subject: RE: BS: Forum members changing a light bulb
From: Joybell
Date: 21 Jan 06 - 06:23 PM

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

Subject: RE: BS: Forum members changing a light bulb
From: Peace
Date: 21 Jan 06 - 06:08 PM

I am storming off, here. Can't find a huff anywhere. Does it have wheels?

Subject: RE: BS: Forum members changing a light bulb
From: Peace
Date: 21 Jan 06 - 06:07 PM

"Someone to misunderstand something, take offense and storm off in a huff..."

Well, if yer gonna be like that, up yers. I am gone!

Subject: RE: BS: Forum members changing a light bulb
From: Bunnahabhain
Date: 21 Jan 06 - 06:00 PM

Someone to misunderstand something, take offense and storm off in a huff...

Have we blamed bush yet?

Subject: RE: BS: Forum members changing a light bulb
From: open mike
Date: 21 Jan 06 - 05:53 PM

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.

Subject: RE: BS: Forum members changing a light bulb
From: Peace
Date: 21 Jan 06 - 05:48 PM

This light's for you, Joybell.

Subject: RE: BS: Forum members changing a light bulb
From: Joybell
Date: 21 Jan 06 - 05:46 PM

Ah! Thanks Peace. With and from Joy

Subject: RE: BS: Forum members changing a light bulb
From: Peace
Date: 21 Jan 06 - 05:44 PM

And a work of art it was, too, Joybell.

Subject: RE: BS: Forum members changing a light bulb
From: Joybell
Date: 21 Jan 06 - 05:29 PM

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

Subject: RE: BS: Forum members changing a light bulb
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 21 Jan 06 - 05:00 PM

100 watts

Subject: RE: BS: Forum members changing a light bulb
From: Troll
Date: 21 Jan 06 - 04:41 PM

You are all still using light bulbs?

How droll.

troll

Subject: RE: BS: Forum members changing a light bulb
From: Peace
Date: 21 Jan 06 - 04:31 PM

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?

Subject: RE: BS: Forum members changing a light bulb
From: autolycus
Date: 21 Jan 06 - 04:22 PM

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.

Subject: RE: BS: Forum members changing a light bulb
From: Peace
Date: 21 Jan 06 - 04:19 PM

Would bridge work as well?

Subject: RE: BS: Forum members changing a light bulb
From: Peace
Date: 21 Jan 06 - 04:17 PM

Help me on this one, Bill. Are you saying that a guy and a gal get babies by playing hearts?

Subject: RE: BS: Forum members changing a light bulb
From: Bill D
Date: 21 Jan 06 - 04:13 PM

♂+♀+♥=☺

Subject: RE: BS: Forum members changing a light bulb
From: Peace
Date: 21 Jan 06 - 03:39 PM

LOLOLOL

Subject: RE: BS: Forum members changing a light bulb
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 21 Jan 06 - 02:51 PM

Neither did we Bruce!
G. ♪♀♫☼►

Subject: RE: BS: Forum members changing a light bulb
From: Peace
Date: 21 Jan 06 - 02:45 PM

I have no idea what I was tryin' to do there.

Subject: RE: BS: Forum members changing a light bulb
From: Peace
Date: 21 Jan 06 - 02:45 PM

☺    ☻
☺    ☻
☺   ☻
☺ ☻
☺ ☻
☺☻
.

Subject: RE: BS: Forum members changing a light bulb
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 21 Jan 06 - 02:36 PM

to what? Cutting and Pasting Light Bulbs perhaps?
Giok ☺☻

Subject: RE: BS: Forum members changing a light bulb
From: Peace
Date: 21 Jan 06 - 02:34 PM

Now you've done it!

Subject: RE: BS: Forum members changing a light bulb
From: SINSULL
Date: 21 Jan 06 - 02:32 PM

1 well meaning clone to change the title and draw Shambles into the discussion.

Subject: RE: BS: Forum members changing a light bulb
From: Peace
Date: 21 Jan 06 - 02:16 PM

BTW, a neat insult that is sometimes used: Vingt-cinq watt. For example, it would aptly be said about Bush.

Subject: RE: BS: Forum members changing a light bulb
From: Peace
Date: 21 Jan 06 - 02:12 PM

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!

Subject: RE: BS: Forum members changing a light bulb
From: Bill D
Date: 21 Jan 06 - 01:53 PM

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.

Subject: RE: BS: Forum members changing a light bulb
From: Peace
Date: 21 Jan 06 - 01:42 PM

Does anyone know if there are lightbulbs on e-Bay?

Subject: RE: BS: Forum members changing a light bulb
From: Bill D
Date: 21 Jan 06 - 01:37 PM

like this

Subject: RE: BS: Forum members changing a light bulb
From: Bill D
Date: 21 Jan 06 - 01:34 PM

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.

Subject: RE: BS: Forum members changing a light bulb
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 21 Jan 06 - 12:48 PM

Eh watt!
G.

Subject: RE: BS: Forum members changing a light bulb
From: artbrooks
Date: 21 Jan 06 - 11:51 AM

Depends a lot on whether or not you go in for nude sun bathing, Duane.

Subject: RE: BS: Forum members changing a light bulb
From: Duane D.
Date: 21 Jan 06 - 10:25 AM

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)

Subject: RE: BS: Forum members changing a light bulb
From: Duane D.
Date: 21 Jan 06 - 10:19 AM

BS: Have lightbulbs made Forum members brighter?

Subject: RE: BS: Forum members changing a light bulb
From: Azizi
Date: 21 Jan 06 - 10:16 AM

Here's another addition-forum members submitting a correction to the typo{s}in the post they just submitted...

subjects=subject.

Subject: RE: BS: Forum members changing a light bulb
From: Azizi
Date: 21 Jan 06 - 10:12 AM

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?

Subject: RE: BS: Forum members changing a light bulb
From: Duane D.
Date: 21 Jan 06 - 10:08 AM

What about the posters starting parallel or parody threads such as:

BS: Lightbulbs changing Forum members

Subject: RE: BS: Forum members changing a light bulb
From: Azizi
Date: 21 Jan 06 - 10:04 AM

I hasten to say I'm not a masochist either.

Subject: RE: BS: Forum members changing a light bulb
From: Azizi
Date: 21 Jan 06 - 10:03 AM

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...

Subject: RE: BS: Forum members changing a light bulb
From: Azizi
Date: 21 Jan 06 - 09:47 AM

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...

Subject: RE: BS: Forum members changing a light bulb
From: artbrooks
Date: 21 Jan 06 - 09:16 AM

...one EE to assert that Edison didn't invent the light bulb....

Subject: RE: BS: Forum members changing a light bulb
From: Mr Red
Date: 21 Jan 06 - 08:13 AM

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.

Subject: RE: BS: Forum members changing a light bulb
From: Don(Wyziwyg)T
Date: 21 Jan 06 - 06:33 AM

The one that worries me is the WEE directive.

In my experience, wee and electrical units do not go well together.

Don T.

Subject: RE: BS: Forum members changing a light bulb
From: Mr Red
Date: 21 Jan 06 - 06:12 AM

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

Subject: RE: BS: Forum members changing a light bulb
From: Paul Burke
Date: 21 Jan 06 - 06:07 AM

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.

Subject: RE: BS: Forum members changing a light bulb
From: gnu
Date: 21 Jan 06 - 05:49 AM

Five times, you say? Did it work as well each other time?

Subject: RE: BS: Forum members changing a light bulb
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 21 Jan 06 - 05:20 AM

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

Subject: RE: BS: Forum members changing a light bulb
From: Peace
Date: 21 Jan 06 - 12:51 AM

Speaking of which, I really like the song by Pirates of the Mississippi entitled "Feed Jake".

Subject: RE: BS: Forum members changing a light bulb
From: LadyJean
Date: 21 Jan 06 - 12:41 AM

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.

Subject: RE: BS: Forum members changing a light bulb
From: Peace
Date: 20 Jan 06 - 11:56 PM

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.

Subject: RE: BS: Forum members changing a light bulb
From: mack/misophist
Date: 20 Jan 06 - 11:25 PM

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?

Subject: RE: BS: Forum members changing a light bulb
From: Don Firth
Date: 20 Jan 06 - 10:02 PM

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

Subject: RE: BS: Forum members changing a light bulb
From: Peace
Date: 20 Jan 06 - 09:53 PM

"Kevlar Pajamas"

Don, you have just opened an entrepreneurial door.

Subject: RE: BS: Forum members changing a light bulb
From: Peace
Date: 20 Jan 06 - 09:52 PM

Hey. If one candle is good, the light-energy release from a fusion explosion will be like, ya know?

Subject: RE: BS: Forum members changing a light bulb
From: Azizi
Date: 20 Jan 06 - 09:47 PM

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

Subject: RE: BS: Forum members changing a light bulb
From: Azizi
Date: 20 Jan 06 - 09:43 PM

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.

Subject: RE: BS: Forum members changing a light bulb
From: Don Firth
Date: 20 Jan 06 - 09:37 PM

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

Subject: RE: BS: Forum members changing a light bulb
From: Azizi
Date: 20 Jan 06 - 09:29 PM

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

Subject: RE: BS: Forum members changing a light bulb
From: bobad
Date: 20 Jan 06 - 09:23 PM

And who better to tell it that it wants to change than Mudcatters.

Subject: RE: BS: Forum members changing a light bulb
From: Peace
Date: 20 Jan 06 - 09:05 PM

One cannot change the lightbulb unless it WANTS to change.

Subject: RE: BS: Forum members changing a light bulb
From: Azizi
Date: 20 Jan 06 - 08:41 PM

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?}.

Subject: RE: BS: Forum members changing a light bulb
From: Peace
Date: 20 Jan 06 - 08:00 PM

I ain't gonna sleep well tonight, Don.

Subject: RE: BS: Forum members changing a light bulb
From: Leadfingers
Date: 20 Jan 06 - 07:58 PM

Surely there would have to be a post referring to the Light Bulbs in The Windward Club in St Albans ?

Subject: RE: BS: Forum members changing a light bulb
From: Don Firth
Date: 20 Jan 06 - 07:56 PM

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

Subject: RE: BS: Forum members changing a light bulb
From: Peace
Date: 20 Jan 06 - 07:40 PM

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.

Subject: RE: BS: Forum members changing a light bulb
From: frogprince
Date: 20 Jan 06 - 07:34 PM

Any candle will kill a mosquito, if you watch for the mosquito to land and you can swing the candle fast enough.

Subject: RE: BS: Forum members changing a light bulb
From: Peace
Date: 20 Jan 06 - 07:32 PM

Absolutely!

Subject: RE: BS: Forum members changing a light bulb
From: Dead Horse
Date: 20 Jan 06 - 07:30 PM

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?

Subject: RE: BS: Forum members changing a light bulb
From: Peace
Date: 20 Jan 06 - 07:27 PM

LOL

Subject: RE: BS: Forum members changing a light bulb
From: bobad
Date: 20 Jan 06 - 07:26 PM

Now now peace, we've all got to get together and give it a group {{{{{{{{{{{hug}}}}}}}}}}}} the poor little light bulb's burnt out.

Subject: RE: BS: Forum members changing a light bulb
From: Peace
Date: 20 Jan 06 - 07:20 PM

Yep!

Subject: RE: BS: Forum members changing a light bulb
From: artbrooks
Date: 20 Jan 06 - 07:10 PM

Does # mean "li"?

Subject: RE: BS: Forum members changing a light bulb
From: Peace
Date: 20 Jan 06 - 06:40 PM

Did anybody tell the lightbulb to f#ck off?

Subject: RE: BS: Forum members changing a light bulb
From: GUEST,Zoroaster
Date: 20 Jan 06 - 05:50 PM

I don't need no stinkin' light bulb, I cast my own illuminating glow. That Johnny-come-lately, Jesus, wants me for a sunbeam.

Subject: RE: BS: Forum members changing a light bulb
From: GUEST,leeneia
Date: 20 Jan 06 - 05:43 PM

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.

Subject: RE: BS: Forum members changing a light bulb
From: frogprince
Date: 20 Jan 06 - 05:38 PM

This little light of mine,
I'm gonna let it shine...

Subject: RE: BS: Forum members changing a light bulb
From: The Fooles Troupe
Date: 20 Jan 06 - 05:34 PM

... and 50 posts abusing the local foul mouthed troll for joining in...

Subject: RE: BS: Forum members changing a light bulb
From: Janie
Date: 20 Jan 06 - 05:28 PM

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)

Subject: RE: BS: Forum members changing a light bulb
From: Little Hawk
Date: 20 Jan 06 - 05:04 PM

"Keep a good head and carry a light bulb." - Bob Dylan

Subject: RE: BS: Forum members changing a light bulb
From: artbrooks
Date: 20 Jan 06 - 04:56 PM

Change the light bulb? Don't bother...I'll just sit in the dark and suffer.

Subject: RE: BS: Forum members changing a light bulb
From: autolycus
Date: 20 Jan 06 - 04:43 PM

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.

Subject: RE: BS: Forum members changing a light bulb
From: Micca
Date: 20 Jan 06 - 04:41 PM

and how about 6 to complain because its Electric????

Subject: RE: BS: Forum members changing a light bulb
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 20 Jan 06 - 04:29 PM

One without a sense of humus, and one to say "Hiya Cynth" in a suggestive manner.
G.

Subject: RE: BS: Forum members changing a light bulb
From: Joybell
Date: 20 Jan 06 - 04:05 PM

"Put a Light in Every Country Window la la la la la la la la la"
Someone to turn it into a music thread.

Subject: RE: BS: Forum members changing a light bulb
From: MMario
Date: 20 Jan 06 - 04:02 PM

Dear CarolC aka Mrs. JacktheSailor:

ahem.

WARN a guy, okay? I can't keep replacing keyboards.

Subject: RE: BS: Forum members changing a light bulb
From: jimmyt
Date: 20 Jan 06 - 04:02 PM

another to spell fluorescent

Subject: RE: BS: Forum members changing a light bulb
From: open mike
Date: 20 Jan 06 - 04:01 PM

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?

Subject: RE: BS: Forum members changing a light bulb
From: CarolC
Date: 20 Jan 06 - 03:54 PM

I don't believe in light bulbs. What a bunch of superstitious twits.

Subject: RE: BS: Forum members changing a light bulb
From: open mike
Date: 20 Jan 06 - 03:53 PM

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.

Subject: RE: BS: Forum members changing a light bulb
From: Scotus
Date: 20 Jan 06 - 03:49 PM

One forum member to change the bulb - another twenty to say "that should be ME up there".

Subject: RE: BS: Forum members changing a light bulb
From: artbrooks
Date: 20 Jan 06 - 03:34 PM

One Forum member who is otherwise totally ignorant of light bulbs to count up to 100.

Subject: RE: BS: Forum members changing a light bulb
From: MMario
Date: 20 Jan 06 - 03:26 PM

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.

Subject: RE: BS: Forum members changing a light bulb
From: Dave (the ancient mariner)
Date: 20 Jan 06 - 03:24 PM

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

Subject: RE: BS: Forum members changing a light bulb
From: Rapparee
Date: 20 Jan 06 - 03:23 PM

And someone like me to ask if it had to be changed because it wasn't planted deeply enough.

Subject: RE: BS: Forum members changing a light bulb
From: Folkiedave
Date: 20 Jan 06 - 03:22 PM

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.

Subject: RE: BS: Forum members changing a light bulb
From: Old Guy
Date: 20 Jan 06 - 03:15 PM

25 forum members to blame George W. Bush for letting it burn out.

Subject: RE: BS: Forum members changing a light bulb
From: jimmyt
Date: 20 Jan 06 - 03:11 PM

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......

Subject: RE: BS: Forum members changing a light bulb
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 20 Jan 06 - 03:11 PM

Does Cork keep Ireland afloat?
Giok

Subject: RE: BS: Forum members changing a light bulb
From: gnu
Date: 20 Jan 06 - 03:07 PM

McGrath... is that the one?

Subject: RE: BS: Forum members changing a light bulb
From: Jeri
Date: 20 Jan 06 - 02:59 PM

Oops, MMario posted while I was looking for links. 2 more, now.

Subject: RE: BS: Forum members changing a light bulb
From: Jeri
Date: 20 Jan 06 - 02:57 PM

1999

2000
Now you only need 3 more!

Subject: RE: BS: Forum members changing a light bulb
From: gnu
Date: 20 Jan 06 - 02:55 PM

Hmmm... wait a minute... sounds familiar...

"We set sail from the cold Quay of Cork."

????

Subject: RE: BS: Forum members changing a light bulb
From: gnu
Date: 20 Jan 06 - 02:53 PM

What service provider were you connecting to the Café with in 1805?

Subject: RE: BS: Forum members changing a light bulb
From: McGrath of Harlow
Date: 20 Jan 06 - 02:51 PM

"ought-five" - now that's an interesting variant.

As in:

In the year of Our Lord
Eighteen hundred ought five...

Subject: RE: BS: Forum members changing a light bulb
From: wysiwyg
Date: 20 Jan 06 - 02:48 PM

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

Subject: RE: BS: Forum members changing a light bulb
From: Emma B
Date: 20 Jan 06 - 02:48 PM

Shouldn't there be at least one to blame the previous lightbulb's failure on GWB?

Subject: RE: BS: Forum members changing a light bulb
From: MMario
Date: 20 Jan 06 - 02:45 PM

only five times since the first posting in Dec of 98 - most recently in march of ought-five

Subject: RE: BS: Forum members changing a light bulb
From: gnu
Date: 20 Jan 06 - 02:39 PM

Thanks for shedding light on the subject.

Subject: BS: Forum members changing a light bulb
From: Folkiedave
Date: 20 Jan 06 - 02:32 PM

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.