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I thought you guys would get a kick out of this...
In light of the recent guiness conversation....
How many listees does it take to screw in a lightbulb?
1,331.
1 to change the bulb and to post to the list the light bulb has been
changed,
14 to share similar experiences of changing lightbulbs and how the
lightbulbs 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
lightbulbs,
53 to flame the spell checkers,
156 to write to the list administrator complaining about the light bulb
discussion and its inappropriateness to the list,
41 to correct spelling in the spelling / grammar flames,
109 to post that this list is not about lightbulbs 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 lightbulbs be stopped,
111 to defend the posting to the list saying that we all use lightbulbs
and therefore the posts **are** relevant to the list,
306 to debate which method of changing light bulbs is superior, wher to
buy the best bulbs, what brand of lightbulbs work best for this
technique, and what brands are faulty,
27 to post URLs where one can see examples of different lightbulbs,
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 concentrate 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 lightbulb controversy
19 to quote the "Me Too's" to say "Me Three",
4 to suggest that posters request the lightbulb 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.
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