How To Change A Light Bulb?

Question: How many list subscribers does it take to change a light bulb?

Answer: 1,332

• 1 to change the light bulb and to post to the mail list that they did it
  
• 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
  
• 27 to point out spelling/grammar errors in posts about changing light bulbs
  
• 53 to flame the spelling checkers
  
• 156 to write to the list administrator complaining about the light bulb discussion and its inappropriateness to this mail list
  
• 41 to correct spelling in the spelling/grammar flames
  
• 109 to post that this list is not about light bulbs and to please take this email exchange to alt.lite.bulb
  
• 203 to demand that cross posting to alt.grammar, alt.spelling, and alt.punctuation about changing light bulbs be stopped
  
• 111 to defend the posting to this list, saying that we all use light bulbs and, therefore, the posts **are** relevant to this mail list
  
• 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 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
  
• 33 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 controversy
  
• 19 to quote the "Me Too"s to say, "Me Three"
  
• 5 to suggest that posters request the light bulb FAQ
  
• 1 to propose a new alt.change.lite.bulb newsgroup
  
• 47 to say this is just what alt.physic.cold_fusion was meant for, leave it here
  
• 143 votes for alt.lite.bulb
  
• 1 to point out that the correct number should be 1,333
  
• 1 to wonder if the person asking that makes it 1,334
  
• 6 to say the inability to deal with numbers shows the sorry state of education under the Republican/Democratic regimes
  
• 7 to argue on the educational budgets under Democrats/Republicans
  
• 3 to blame Hillary Clinton
  
• 18 to flame the others
  
• 1 new subscriber to ask what the original question was and could someone bring her/him up to date
  
• 1 to forward it to another list
  
• 1 list owner to intervene.

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