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Subject:Friday Listserve Humor
From:Holm
Date:Thu, 14 Dec 2000 22:16:26 -0600

Question: How many Vanagon.com listserve readers
does it take to change a light bulb?

Answer: 826
>
>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 in the proximity of water.
>
>27 to point out typing errors in posts about
>changing light bulbs.
>
>53 to flame the typing checkers.
>
>41 to point out typing errors in the flames.
>
>6 to argue over whether it is "lightbulb" or
>"light bulb"; another 6 to condemn these 6 as
>anal-retentive.
>
>109 to post that this list is not about light
>bulbs and to please take this exchange elsewhere.
>
>
>111 to defend the posting to this list saying
>that we all use light bulbs and therefore the
>posts *are* relevant.
>
>306 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.
>
>27 to post URLs where one can see examples of
>different light bulbs.
>
>14 to post that the URLs were posted incorrectly
>and to post the corrected URLs.
>
>44 to ask what is an URL.
>
>12 to post to the list that they are
>unsubscribing because they cannot handle the
>light bulb controversy.
>
>4 to say "We went through this already a short
>time ago and to check the archives"
>
>20 to ask what is the archives?
>
>23 to ask where are the archives?

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