Hello Dave,
Please, it's "lightbulb". A "light bulb" is a bulb that doesn't weigh very
much. The difference in the math is the listers who post wisecracks about it
and the lurkers who post the same question two weeks later.
Mark Stahlke (one of the wisecrackers)
On 31-Mar-99, Dave Massey wrote:
>
> Brian,
>
> Your math is wrong. I added it up twice and came up with 1337
> both times. ;-)
>
> Dave Massey
>
> P.S. I just wanted to be the first with an anal response to your
> story. Good one BTW.
>
> <<<<<<<<<< Original Message >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
> I picked this up floating around the net and thought it was funny:
>
> Internet Light Bulb
>
> Q: How many internet mail list subscribers does it take to change a
> light bulb? (more appropriately for our list: to determine the original BRG
> color code?)
> A: 1,343
>
> 1 to change the light bulb and to post to the mail list 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";
>
> another 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 mail list;
>
> 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 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 unsubscribing 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 Usenet?"
>
> 143 to ask "what's Usenet?"
>
>
> Bryan Stinocher
>
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