Smashing....a comical tour de force. <G> xponent rob ----- Original Message ----- From: "Paul Goodwin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Newsgroups: alt.music.yes Sent: Tuesday, February 06, 2001 10:01 AM Subject: OT but amusing > Saw this & for some reason it reminded me of AMY lol > > Q: How many NG members does it take to change a > light bulb? > > A: 1,343 - > 1 to change the light bulb and to post to the NG 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; > 27 to point out spelling/grammar errors in posts about changing light > bulbs; > 53 to flame the spell checkers; > 41 to correct spelling/grammar flames; > 6 to argue over whether it's "lightbulb" or "light bulb"; > 6 to condemn those 6 as anal-retentive; 156 to write to the list > administrator about the light bulb discussion and its inappropriateness > to this NG; > 109 to post that this list is not about light bulbs and to please take > this email exchange to litebulb-l; > 203 to demand that cross posting to grammar-l, spelling-l and > illuminati-l about changing light bulbs be stopped; > 111 to defend the posting to this list saying that we all use light > bulbs and therefore the posts *are* relevant to this mail list; > 306 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; > 27 to post URL's where one can see examples of different light bulbs; > 14 to post that the URL's were posted incorrectly and the post the > corrected URL's; > 3 to post about links they found from the URL's that are relevant to > this list which makes light bulbs relevant to this list; > 33 to link all posts to date, then quote them including all headers and > footers and then add "Me too"; > 12 to post to the list that they are leaving the group because they > cannot handle the light bulb controversy; > 19 to quote the "Me too's" to say "Me three"; > 4 to suggest that posters request the light bulb FAQ; > 44 to ask what is "FAQ"; > 4 to say "didn't we go through this already a short time ago on the > mailing list?" > 143 to ask "what mailing list"? > > > -- > Paul > -- > "I before E except after C"--- we live in a weird society... > > > >
