How many People
How many People does it take 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
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" ....
and another 6 to condemn those 6 as stupid
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 group is not about light bulbs and to
please take this discussion to a lightbulb forum
11 to defend the posting to the group saying that we all use
light bulbs and therefore the posts are relevant to this
group
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 URLs where one can see examples of different light
bulbs
4 to post that the URLs were posted incorrectly and then
post the corrected URL.
3 to post about links they found from the URLs that are relevant
to this group which makes light bulbs relevant to this group
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"
3 to tell a funny story about their beagle and a light bulb
1 group lurker to respond to the original post 6 months from
now and start it all over again.
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