Some Monday Morning Humor for your enjoyment

How many HAMBers 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
1 to move it to the Lighting section
2 to argue then move it to the Electricals 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 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, 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"
1 forum lurker to respond to the original post 6 months from now and start it all over again.

Stolen from http://www.annoyances.org

 

and 4 to post a link to ebay where you can buy totally unrelated lighting items

 

I'm glad I didn't read this while drinking my first cup of coffee this morning or I would have to send you a bill for cleaning and drying my keyboard and a new cup of coffee.When are you taking your show on the road?

 

Of course you know you are getting too close to the truth dontcha????

 

9 post *****s

 

3 to photoshop what a new light bulb will look like in the old socket.
1 to chop that photoshoped light bulb and add some chrome lamp shades

 

Two to argue wether lightbulbs are really traditional. And if they are.. who used them in the 1950's.
How true this all of this really is.

 

3 to say lightbulbs are gay.

 

I'll bet this post goes 3 pages and puts the Texas chevy build on page 11 by tomorrow!
Any takers?

 

1 to post that he has some *****in, NOS, cherry light bulbs for sale, then get flamed for spamming, then quit the HAMB 'cause, he's tired of all ********, and then join again to remind us that he still has a few, NOS lightbulbs left after he was robbed again.

It's the truth... Mark my words... In fact you'd better Mark-us all!

 

7 to post and ***** about the Bling-Bling chrome lampshades....
1 to post the question "Is that light bulb bias ply or radial?"

 

1 to ***** about Photoshoping their lightbulb without their permission. Leading to a whole new series of posts about wether or not its Ok to Photoshop unless someone asks you to.

 

Dont forget the post telling about the light bulb thats way over priced on E-Bay!

 

So this kind of **** happens in other forums too..??

Radical....

 

17 to compliment the light bulb or lightbulb.

12 to plan a Bar-B-Q & thrash to install light bulb or lightbulb

3 to post pics of light bulb or lightbulb installation festivities.

Billy

 

11 to ***** at the lurker (from the first post) for not posting an intro.

 

and 1 newbie with over 1000 posts to make a random comment about lightbulbs so his # of posts can increase to 2000 within another month!

HC

 

22 to post that the bulbs are shiney and real bulbs are suade or flat black wt red sockets

 

9 to have breakfast to discuss what equipment is required to change the light bulb.

 

I'm sure there would be a few post about the proper wattage use. Also weather rough service bulbs are really better.

 

Also..
1 Tech post on rebuilding your blown out bulbs

1 Tech post on modifyeing 3 way bulbs for maximum output.

1 raffle of cookies made with all bulbs broken during the Bar-B-Q/bulb installation festivities.

Billy

 

WHOA! Please make 'em stop!! I'm LMFAO!! That's the funniest stuff I've ever seen on here. But true....
Haven't heard from the "gold-filament" crowd yet

 

Unfortunately there is some truth to that.

 

I nominate this one for Tech Post of the Week!

 

1 person to TYPE WEIRD,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,and make death threats and drug references not pertaining at all to lightbulbs but still interesting

and end the post with XOXOXOXOXO

 

...and this is about where I step in with stories of my late model un-trad JAPANESE lightbulb that smokes the **** outta all y'alls lightbulbs on the freeway cause its SO bright and hardly uses any electricity....

 

1 to post that they want a new lightbulb but they don't have the skills or money to change it.

2 to suggest that we have a HAMBbulb to help him out.

25 to volunteer supplies, labor and knowledge to the HAMBbulb.