[Rhodes22-list] CAUTION: HUMOR

[Joseph Hadzima]

Hello all

I shamelessly cut and pasted this from the Long Island
sailnet forum.  I hope it will tickle a Rhodie's funny bone
somewhere out there in cyber space.

joe/hadz

"That's what a ship is, you know. It's not just a keel and
hull and a deck and sails. That's what a ship needs. But
what a ship is... is freedom." 
-- Captain Jack Sparrow 



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Yet on a lighter note, the following bit of insight was
recently passed along on the Pearson list (and was itself a
re-birth of the original posting of several years ago), and
is quite apropos here and now:

How many forum members does it take to change a light bulb?


1 to actually change the light bulb and 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 

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 

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 

156 to email the participant's ISPs complaining that they
are in violation of their "acceptable use policy" 

109 to post that this forum is not about light bulbs and to
please take this discussion to a lightbulb forum 

203 to demand that cross posting to hardware forum,
off-topic forum, and lightbulb forum about changing light
bulbs be stopped 

111 to defend the posting to this forum saying that we all
use light bulbs and therefore the posts *are* relevant to
this forum 

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 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 

33 to link all posts to date, quote them in their entirety
including all headers and signatures, and add "Me too" 

12 to post to the group that they will no longer post
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 a "FAQ" 

4 to say "didn't we go through this already a short time
ago?" 

143 to say "do a Google search on light bulbs before
posting questions about light bulbs" 

1 new forum member to respond to the original post 6 months
from now and start it all over again.