Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/04/21

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Subject: [Leica] Re: Light Bulbs
From: "TSL" <eno22@enter.net>
Date: Wed, 21 Apr 1999 19:32:44 -0400

This was posted, and it is incorrect:

Question:  How many LUG members does it take to change
a light bulb?

Answer:   1,331

Why?

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 this 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 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.lite.bulb

Actually it is 1312.
Well...ad infinitum...but now the rules can change...So I'll excuse myself
as now anyone can.
AND 1 to provide us with this analysis.  Also, the statistical data does not
take into account the fact that many, or everyone falls under many different
categories, which would increase the final result, etc.  It's not fair that
I can't be both a "Me Three" and a "This is not relevant"  So nobody else
does, I am now increasing the final number... You could respond by now
showing how one person can, in one post, double this number. (Am I close?)