[Rhodes22-list] Laughing at ourselves - from a lurker

[Dennis McNeely]

I found this on another forum and thought some of us might relate ;-)

Q: How many forum members does it takes to change a light bulb?

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 3 standards zealots to
point out that light bulbs have been deprecated in the LB 2.1 spec 1 to call
upon everybody to ignore this deprecation 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 Google search on light bulbs before posting questions
about light bulbs" 1 forum lurker to respond to the original post 6 months
from now and start it all over again.

Happy holidays everyone. :) 

Dennis McNeely