Light Bulbs

[Kayot]

Light Bulb

Q: How many EQemu forum members does it take to change a light bulb?

A: 473:

• 1 to change the light bulb and to post to the forum that the light bulb has been changed
• 5 to share similar experiences of changing light bulbs and how the light bulb could have been changed differently.
• 3 to caution about the dangers of changing light bulbs.
• 4 to point out spelling/grammar errors in posts about changing light bulbs.
• 10 to flame the spell checkers
• 12 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 proclaimed industry professionals to inform the group that the proper term is "lamp"
• 35 to write to the list administrator complaining about the light bulb discussion and its inappropriateness to this forum.
• 25 to correct spelling in the spelling/grammar flames.
• 19 to post that this forum is not about light bulbs and to please take this discussion to a lightbulb forum
• 15 who claim that they were previously in the industry, and that "light bulb" is perfectly correct
• 45 to defend the posting to this list saying that we are all using light bulbs and therefore the posts **are** relevant to this mail list.
• 5 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.
• 3 to post URLs where one can see examples of different light bulbs
• 16 to post that the URLs were posted incorrectly, and to post corrected URLs.
• 3 to post about links they found from the URLs that are relevant to this list which makes light bulbs relevant to this list.
• 4 to discuss how AA's need to be fixed
• 20 to concatenate all posts to date, then quote them including all headers and footers, and then add "Me Too."
• 12 to post to the list that they are unsubscribing because they cannot handle the light bulb controversey.
• 19 to quote the "Me Too's" to say, "Me Three."
• 4 to suggest that posters request the light bulb FAQ.
• 1 to propose a new light bulb forum section.
• 47 to say this is just what the Cold Fusion Section was meant for, leave it here.
• 143 votes for the new forum.
• 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 later to start it all over again.

[bufferofnewbies]

The history of light bulbs

+1 for the wierdo who looked for the site on how it all got started.

WOW that IS the EQEmu forums, summed up as a light bulb!!


You forgot about the admin who gets fed up and starts banning people tho...

[Kayot]

• 1 admin and 2 mods who get fed up and start banning people for stupid lightbulb post. Then they lock all topics related to lightbulbs and consider the whole thing over... Till a week passes and someone else posts yet another lightbulb post, much to the admins dismay.

(Feel free to add this ^-^)

[Angelox]

Originally Posted by Kayot

• 1 admin and 2 mods who get fed up and start banning people for stupid lightbulb post. Then they lock all topics related to lightbulbs and consider the whole thing over... Till a week passes and someone else posts yet another lightbulb post, much to the admins dismay.

(Feel free to add this ^-^)

Thank you, thank you .. Believe me , I've learned my lesson here.
I need to keep reminding myself of my mother's constant quote; "If you can't say something nice, then don't say anything at all"
Think I'll paste it somewhere around my desk , so I won't forget again

[Kayot]

Was this post offensive?

[bufferofnewbies]

nah, I think that was a reference to the guy they banned yesterday/ day before/ whenever, dang it I was drunk!

I actually saw the post before hand and *almost* edited both him and Ang before "what was going to happen" to keep it on a more professional level, but I figured I'd let the fish hit the fire since all the cooks were already looking. And I really didnt like him calling Ang that...

[narcberry]

my server doesnt work, can someone put together a comprehensive walkthrough tailored to me and my system only so I can get bored a week later?

[link2009]

Originally Posted by narcberry

my server doesnt work, can someone put together a comprehensive walkthrough tailored to me and my system only so I can get bored a week later?

What does this have to do with LightBulbs? Z0MG!

On-Topic: Excellent post

[MysticDeath]

my server doesnt work, can someone put together a comprehensive walkthrough tailored to me and my system only so I can get bored a week later?

I think that, that could be a joke! O_O

You forgot people who get offtopic of lightbulbs...

[Kayot]

• 4 to discuss how AA's need to be fixed

Thats the off topic ^-^

[smartmonkey777]

i cant help but add ...
this fortunatly dosent really pertain to eqemu forums : )


1 person makes a flame near the beginning of the topic "usually about someones mother"

26 other people prove they can be just as stupid "smart" and crass "witty"
by adding there 2cp

500 succesive people wonder what 1 light bulb and 27 peoples mom has to do with eqemu.

389 of those people managed to look through the garbage and actually found usefull info on the light bulb

121 are so lost they give up there long lived dreams of there very own light bulb powerd eqemu server