Speaking of Flame Wars

How many newsgroup readers 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.

1 to demand it be moved to the Lighting section.

2 to argue that it be moved to the Electrical section.

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" ... 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 forum is not about light bulbs and to please take this
discussion to a light bulb forum.

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

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 URL's were posted incorrectly and then post the corrected
URLs.

3 to post about links they found from the URLs that are relevant to this group,
which makes light bulbs relevant to this group.

13 to link all posts to date, quote them in their entirety including all
headers and signatures, and add "me too."

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."

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


Lauren

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"PawsForThought" wrote in message
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How many newsgroup readers does it take to change a light bulb?

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Lauren
LOL
Annie

"PawsForThought" wrote in message
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How many newsgroup readers does it take to change a light bulb?

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Lauren
LOL
Annie

PawsForThought wrote in
on 30 Jan 2004:

How many newsgroup readers does it take to change a light bulb?

Classic! Thanks for posting that. Hmm.. shouldn't "thanks for posting
that" be on the list?

--
Cheryl

Trapped like rats. In a chia-pet.
MIB II

PawsForThought wrote in
on 30 Jan 2004:

How many newsgroup readers does it take to change a light bulb?

Classic! Thanks for posting that. Hmm.. shouldn't "thanks for posting
that" be on the list?

--
Cheryl

Trapped like rats. In a chia-pet.
MIB II

How many newsgroup readers does it take to change a light bulb?

That's funny, Lauren. I gotta admit, tho, that a little flame war now and then
can be quite invigorating.

Candace
(take the litter out before replying by e-mail)

See my cats:
http://photos.yahoo.com/maccandace

"One does not meet oneself until one catches the reflection from an eye other
than human." (Loren Eisely)

How many newsgroup readers does it take to change a light bulb?

That's funny, Lauren. I gotta admit, tho, that a little flame war now and then
can be quite invigorating.

Candace
(take the litter out before replying by e-mail)

See my cats:
http://photos.yahoo.com/maccandace

"One does not meet oneself until one catches the reflection from an eye other
than human." (Loren Eisely)

On Sat, 31 Jan 2004 01:13:13 +0000, PawsForThought wrote:

How many newsgroup readers does it take to change a light bulb?

Old enough to start growing hair, but still funny to this day. =^^=

'course, the flames I've seen here are nothing compared to alt.fan.furry
or comp.os.*.advocacy....

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Dennis Carr - | I may be out of my mind,
http://www.dennis.furtopia.org | But I have more fun that way.
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On Sat, 31 Jan 2004 01:13:13 +0000, PawsForThought wrote:

How many newsgroup readers does it take to change a light bulb?

Old enough to start growing hair, but still funny to this day. =^^=

'course, the flames I've seen here are nothing compared to alt.fan.furry
or comp.os.*.advocacy....

--
Dennis Carr - | I may be out of my mind,
http://www.dennis.furtopia.org | But I have more fun that way.
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I've seen that before, but I still laugh every time I read it.
It's all true!!

Sherry