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

[arranj]

Thought this was funny. Not relevant to us, but good nonetheless!:

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

1 to change the light bulb.
1 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. 27 to point out spelling/grammar errors in posts about
changing light bulbs.
53 to flame the spell checkers.
6 to argue over whether it's "lightbulb" or "light bulb" ... another 6 to
condemn those 6 as anal-retentive. 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. 156 to email the participant's ISPs complaining that
they are in violation of their "acceptable use policy". 109 to post that
this forum is not about light bulbs and to please take this discussion to a
lightbulb forum. 203 to demand that cross posting to hardware forum,
off-topic forum, and lightbulb forum about changing light bulbs be stopped.
111 to defend the posting to this forum saying that we all use light bulbs
and therefore the posts are relevant to this forum. 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 then post
the corrected URLs. 27 to post about links they found from the URLs that are
relevant to this group which makes light bulbs relevant to this group. 33 to
link all posts to date, quote them in their entirety including all headers
and signatures, and add "Me too". 12 to post to the group that they will no
longer post because they cannot handle the light bulb controversy. 19 to
quote the "Me too's" to say "Me three". 4 to suggest that posters request
the light bulb FAQ. 44 to ask what is a "FAQ"? 4 to say "didn't we go
through this already a short time ago?" 143 to say "do a search on 'light
bulbs' before posting questions about light bulbs". 1 to point to the how to
on changing lightbulbs 3 to spam the post talking about how light is
pretty.... 8 to post the little "off topic" smiley 4 to ask what kind of
lightbulb they should buy 2 to get in a heated debate about which is better,
halogen or fluorescent 1 to ask about how to get it to turn on 1 to post
that it is against the rules to link to light bulbs 3 more to make sure you
read the rules before you post 1 to say sorry and 1 new forum member to
respond to the original post 6 months from now and to start it all over
again.

[bozzzydmc]

Ha Ha !

That is actually very true !...

[RobvdVeer]

You forgot to mention the 145 members you put up a joke about something somebody else said.