How many internet mail list subscribers does it take to change a light bulb?

ANSWER:
1,331:

1 to change the light bulb and to post to the mail list 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

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 are 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."

4 to suggest that posters request the light bulb FAQ.

1 to propose 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

(shamelessly stolen from dPhilc at The Fact or Fiction Network)

6:29:49 PM     

The sunset

It's been another beautiful day here in Tennessee - chilly breezes, sparkling sunshine, and some of the most gorgeous sunsets I've ever seen!  There must be some odd atmospheric goings-on lately around here, for Wednesday something sparked a sunset so brilliantly layered with colors it seemed a rainbow within the sunset itself.  Shades of lavenders and blues such as I've never seen before.  Reds and oranges so striking it seemed the earth underfoot was afire.  Scott wondered aloud if we were the only two people who witnessed it.  We stopped the car in the middle of the road to look.  I didn't see anyone else taking notice, and by the time we pulled into the driveway it was almost over and all that remained was a purple sky.  Too late to capture it with the camera, but I doubt either of us will soon forget it. 

5:51:16 PM     

Beverly

"At  night as she lay on her bed in the open, or in the tent with some of the canvas rolled back so that she could see the sky, she watched the stars, not for ten minutes or a quarter-hour as most people did, but for hour after hour after hour.  Even astronomers did not take in the sky with such devotion, for they were constantly occupied with charting, measurements, the fallibilities of their earthbound instruments, and concentration upon one or another celestial problem.  Beverly had the whole of it; she could see it all; and, unlike shepherds or drovers, and the rough and privileged woodsmen who work and sleep outdoors, she was not often tired.  The abandoned stars were hers for the many rich hours of sparkling winter nights, and unattended, she took them in like lovers.  She felt that she looked out, not up, into the spacious universe, she knew the names of every bright star and all the constellations, and (although she could not see them) she was familiar with the vast billowing nebulae in which one filament of a wild and shaken mane carried in its trail a hundred million worlds.  In a delirium of comets, suns, and pulsating stars, she let her eyes fill with the humming, crackling, hissing light of the galaxy's edge, a perpetual twilight, a gray dawn in one of heaven's many galleries."
   ---from Winter's Tale by Mark Helprin

5:08:49 PM     

From the mailbox

In my email at the office this morning:

"Scotland Yard suspects the Ricin issue more severe than media released.  Also believe cyanide also been produced but not found.  Believe they have not found all the ricin as well.  Suspect more info to come out later today or tomorrow"....this was forwarded to Tennessee hospitals by the Davidson County Disaster Preparedness/Metro Public Health Department.  I haven't heard this reported in the media, but the memo states the information came directly from the Department of Health & Human Services in Washington. 

2:34:37 PM     

Quotes of the day

"If women didn't exist, all the money in the world would have no meaning."
-- Aristotle Onassis (1906-1975)

"I don't even butter my bread; I consider that cooking." 
- Katherine Cebrian

1:20:27 PM