how many hobbiests does it take to change a lightbulb?
 

a friend of mine from a fishkeeping forum posted this. it was so funny i just had to share!

How Many Hobbyists Does it Take to Change a Lightbulb?

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" ... 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 lightbulb 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 URL's where one can see examples of different light bulbs

4 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

13 to link all posts to date, quote them in their entirety including all headers and signatures, just to 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"

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

Making a total of 176 posts

:rofl: HAHA! Funny.. and the terrible thing is I see myself in nearly all those comments. :blushing: I still have to try the "to link all posts to date, quote them in their entirety including all headers and signatures, just to add "Me too"" one though.. ;) hahah.

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Sounds exactly like some of the threads here.

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Thanks for the laugh!!!!!

Heheh.... You made my morning!

I know! it was great! i have seen soo many threads here and at TPT that are like that :D everytime i see one now, all i will do is laugh :) :rofl: :rofl:

i saw this at like 1:30 am last night. and i almost woke people up, it was hard to stay quiet!!!!!!!



lightbulb or light bulb????

BAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA! THIS IS HILARIOUS! (P.s. I am one of those people who mentally spell check everything I read!)

OMG!!! That is hilarious! Thanks for sharing and giving me a laugh!

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