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To: spridgets@Autox.Team.Net
Subject: Humor (no LBC)
From: "Peter Samaroo" <mrbugeye@hotmail.com>
Date: Fri, 20 Nov 1998 06:23:42 PST
Reply-to: "Peter Samaroo" <mrbugeye@hotmail.com>
Sender: owner-spridgets@Autox.Team.Net
>From the jag site.
Any relation to anyone on this site is purely coincidental.

Q: How many internet mail list subscribers does it take to change a 
light bulb? 

A: 1,331: 

(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 
(156) to write to the list administrator complaining about the light 
bulb discussion and its inappropriateness to this mail list. 
(41) to correct spelling in the spelling/grammar flames. 
(109) to post that this list is not about light bulbs and to please take  
his email exchange to alt.lite.bulb 
(203) to demand that cross posting to alt.grammar, alt.spelling and 
alt.punctuation about changing light bulbs be stopped. 
(111) to defend the posting to this list saying that we are 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 URLs where one can see examples of different light bulbs 
(14) to post that the URLs were posted incorrectly, and to post 
corrected URLs. 
(3) to post about links they found from the URLs that are relevant to 
this list which makes light bulbs relevant to this list. 
(33) to concatenate 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. 
(1) to propose new alt.change.lite.bulb newsgroup. 
(47) to say this is just what alt.physic.cold_fusion was meant for, 
leave it here. 
(143) votes for alt.light.bulb.



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