BS: Forum members changing a light bulb

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.

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