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- From: scratchy.caltech.edu!nathan (Nathan Mates)
- Newsgroups: rec.humor
- Subject: Lightbulb Jokes
- Date: 20 Nov 1992 07:08:42 GMT
- Organization: California Institute of Technology, Pasadena
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-
- To everyone who regularly reads this group, these may be old stuff, but
- >Can you put up the light bulb jokes and Murphy's laws? Or mail them to
- >me?
- (Lame excuse for posting, I know)
-
-
- Q: How many Californians does it take to change a light bulb?
- A: Six. One to turn the bulb, one for support, and four to relate to the
- experience.
-
- Q: How many Oregonians does it take to screw in a light bulb?
- A: Five. One to change the bulb and four more to chase off the
- Californians who have come up to relate to the experience.
- A': Nine. One to change the bulb, and eight to protest the nuclear power
- plant that generates the electricity that powers it.
-
- Q: How many New Yorkers does it take to screw in a light bulb?
- A: None 'o yo' damn business!
- A': 50. 50? Yeah 50; its in the contract.
-
- Q: How many WASPs does it take to change a light bulb?
- A: Two. One to call the electrician and one to mix the martinis.
-
- Q: How many Psychiatrists does it take to change a light bulb?
- A: Only one, but the bulb has got to really WANT to change.
- A': None; the bulb will change itself when it is ready.
-
- Q: How many software people does it take to screw in a light bulb?
- A: None. Thats a hardware problem.
- A': One, but if he changes it, the whole building will probably fall down.
- A": Two. One always leaves in the middle of the project.
-
- Q: How many hardware folks does it take to change a light bulb?
- A: None. That's a software problem.
- A': None. They just have marketing portray the dead bulb as a feature.
-
- Q: How many FSE's does it take to replace a dead light bulb?
- A: Who can tell. FSE's are always in the dark.
- A': 2. One to hold the bulb and one to pound it in (etc)
-
- Q': How long will it take?
- A:' That's indeterminate. It depends on how many dead bulbs they've
- brought with them.
-
- Q": What if you have *two* dead bulbs?
- A": They replace your fuse box.
-
- Q: How many Unix hacks does it take to change a light bulb?
- A: As many as you want; they're all virtual, anyway.
-
- Q: How many Bell Labs Vice Presidents does it take to change a light
- bulb?
- A: That's proprietary information. Answer available from AT&T on payment
- of license fee (binary only).
- A': Nearly unanswerable, since the one who tries to change it usually
- drops it, and the others call for a planning session.
- A": Three. One to get the bulb and two to get the phone number of one of
- their subordinates to actually change it.
-
- Q: How many graduate students does it take to screw in a light bulb?
- A: Only one, but it may take upwards of five years for him to get it
- done.
-
- Q: How many `Real Men' does it take to change a light bulb?
- A:: None: `Real Men' aren't afraid of the dark.
- A:: None of your damn business!
-
- Q: How many `Real Women' does it take to change a light bulb?
- A: None: A 'Real Woman' would have plenty of real men around to do it.
-
- Q: How many Jewish mothers does it take to screw in a light bulb?
- A: None. ("Thats all right...I'll just sit here in the dark...")
-
- Q: How many mice does it take to screw in a light bulb?
- A: Only two, but the hard part is getting them into the light bulb.
-
- Q: How many Polacks does it take to change a light bulb?
- A: Just one, but you need 6000 Russian troops in case he goes on strike!
-
- Q: How many WASPs does it take to screw in a light bulb?
- A: Silly, WASPs don't screw in a light bulb, they screw in a hot tub.
-
- Q: How many Marxists does it take to screw in a light bulb?
- A: None: The light bulb contains the seeds of its own revolution.
-
- Q: How many (Generals/Politicians) does it take to change a light bulb?
- A: 1,000,001: One to change the bulb and 1,000,000 to rebuild
- civilization to the point where they need light bulbs again.
-
- Q: How many survivors of a nuclear war does it take to screw in a light
- bulb?
- A: None, because people who glow in the dark don't need light bulbs.
-
- Q: How many Russian leaders does it take to change a light bulb?
- A: Nobody knows. Russian leaders don't last as long as light bulbs.
-
- Q: How many nuclear engineers does it take to change a light bulb?
- A: Seven. One to install the new bulb and six to figure out what to do
- with the old one for the next 10,000 years.
-
- Q: How many pre-med students does it take to change a light bulb?
- A: Five: One to change the bulb and four to pull the ladder out from
- under him.
-
- Q: How many Christians does it take to change a light bulb?
- A: Three, but they're really only one.
-
- Q: How many Christian Scientists does it take to screw in a light bulb?
- A: None, but it takes at least one to sit and pray for the old one to go
- back on.
-
- Q: How many jugglers does it take to change a light bulb?
- A: One, but it takes at least three light bulbs.
-
- Q: How many Feminists does it take to change a light bulb?
- A: Thats not funny!!!
- Q': How many 'Cliffie girls does it take to change a light bulb?
- A': It's "Radcliffe Women" and it's not funny!
-
- Q: How many supply-siders does it take to change a light bulb?
- A: None. The darkness will cause the light bulb to change by itself.
-
- Q: How many economists does it take to screw in a light bulb?
- A: Two. One to assume the ladder and one to change the bulb.
- A': None. If the government would just leave it alone, it would screw
- itself in.
-
- Q: How many Valley Girls does it take to change a light bulb?
- A: Oooh, like, manual labor? Gag me with a spoon! For sure.
-
- Q: How many data base people does it take to change a light bulb?
- A: Three:
- One to write the light bulb removal program,
- one to write the light bulb insertion program, and
- one to act as a light bulb administrator to make sure
- nobody else tries to change the light bulb at the same time.
-
- Q: How many straight San Franciscans does it take to screw in a light
- bulb?
- A: Both of them.
-
- Q: How many Zen masters does it take to screw in a light bulb?
- A: A tree in a golden forest.
- A': Two: one to change the bulb and one not to change it.
- A": One to change and one not to change is fake Zen. The true Zen answer
- is Four. One to change the bulb.
- A'":None. Zen masters carry their own light.
-
- Q: How many Carl Sagans does it take to screw in a light bulb?
- A: Billions and billions.
-
- Q: How many folk singers does it take to screw in a light bulb?
- A: Two. One to change the bulb, and one to write a song about how good
- the old light bulb was.
-
- Q: How many surrealists does it take to change a light bulb?
- A: Two, one to hold the giraffe, and the other to fill the bathtub with
- brightly colored machine tools.
-
- Q: How many gorillas does it take to screw in a light bulb?
- A: Only one, but it sure takes a shitload of light bulbs!
-
- Q: How many doctors does it take to screw in a light bulb?
- A: Three. One to find a bulb specialist, one to find a bulb installation
- specialist, and one to bill it all to Medicare.
-
- Q: What is the difference between a pregnant woman and a light bulb?
- A: You can unscrew a light bulb.
-
- Q: How many [IBM] Technical Writers does it take to change a light bulb?
- A: 100. Ten to do it, and 90 to write document number GC7500439-0001,
- Multitasking Incandescent Source System Facility, of which 10% of the
- pages state only "This page intentionally left blank", and 20% of the
- definitions are of the form "A:...... consists of sequences of non-blank
- characters separated by blanks".
- A': Just one, provided there's an engineer around to explain how to do it.
-
- Q: How many Bratzlaver Chassidim does it take to change a light bulb?
- A: None. They will never find one that burned as brightly as the first
- one.
-
- Q: How many gays does it take to screw in a light bulb?
- A: Two. One to screw it in and the other to say "Fabulous."
-
- Q: How many professors does it take to change a light bulb?
- A: Only one, but they get three tech. reports out of it.
-
- Q: How many people from New Jersey does it take to change a light bulb?
- A: Three. One to change the light bulb, one to be a witness, and the
- third to shoot the witness.
-
- Q: How many <ethnics> does it take to screw in a light bulb?
- A: 10. One to hold the bulb and nine to rotate the ladder.
-
- Q: How many strong <ethnics> does it take to screw in a light bulb?
- A: 115. One to hold the bulb and 114 to rotate the house.
-
- Q: How many <ethnic> gods does it take to screw in a light bulb?
- A: Two. One to hold the bulb and the other to rotate the planet.
-
- Q: How many people does it take to throw away a one WATT bulb??
- A: Five. A Black, a Jew, two women, and a cripple...
- Notes: topical to the resignation of Interior secretary James Watt in 1983
-
- Q: How many cops does it take to screw in a light bulb?
- A: None. It turned itself in.
-
- Q: How many lawyers does it take to change a light bulb?
- A: How many can you afford?
-
- Q: How many football players does it take to change a light bulb?
- A: The entire team! And they all get a semester's credit for it!
-
- Q: How many Lesbians does it take to screw in a light bulb?
- A: Three. One to screw it in and two to talk about how much better it is
- than with a man.
-
- Q: How many thought police does it take to screw in a light bulb?
- A: None. There never *was* any light bulb.
- Notes: Probably the only really good light bulb joke of 1984.
-
- Q: how many cabbage patch dolls does it take to change a light bulb?
- A: the question is irrelevant since you couldn't find the dolls even if
- you knew how many.
- Notes: Topical to 1983 and the difficulty of obtaining cabbage patch
- dolls
-
- Q: How many Federal employees does it take to screw in a light bulb?
- A: Sorry, that item has been cut from the budget!
-
- Q: How many psychics does it take to screw in a light bulb?
- A: ---- You should have hit "n"!
-
- Q: How many "pro-lifers" does it take to change a light bulb?
- A: 6: 2 to screw in the bulb and 4 to testify that it was lit from the
- moment they began screwing.
-
- Q: How many sorority sisters does it take to change a light bulb?
- A: 51. One to change the bulb, and fifty to sing about the bulb being
- changed.
-
- Q: How many frat guys does it take to screw in a light bulb?
- A: Three: One to screw it in, and the other two to help him down off the
- keg.
- A': Five: One to hold the bulb, and four to guzzle beer until the room
- spins.
-
- Q: How many Harvard students does it take to screw in a light bulb?
- A: Just one. He grabs the bulb and waits for the world to revolve around
- him.
-
- Q: How many bureaucrats does it take to screw in a light bulb?
- A: Two. One to assure the everything possible is being done while the
- other screws the bulb into the water faucet.
-
- Q: How many board meetings does it take to get a light bulb changed?
- A: This topic was resumed from last week's discussion, but is incomplete
- pending resolution of some action items. It will be continued next week.
- Meanwhile...
-
- Q: How many assholes does it take to change a light bulb?
- A: None; assholes never see the light anyway.
-
- Q: How many Necrophiliacs does it take to screw in a light bulb?"
- A: None. Necrophiliacs prefer dead bulbs.
- A': Only one. Oh, excuse me, could you please test the socket with your
- finger while I go get a new bulb?"
-
- Q: How many brewers does it take to change a light bulb?
- A: About one third less than for a regular bulb.
-
- Q: How many WASP Princesses does it take to screw in a light bulb?
- A: Two. One to get a Tab and one to call Daddy.
-
- Q: How many accountants does it take to screw in a light bulb?
- A: What kind of answer did you have in mind?
-
- Q: How many dead babies does it take to change a light bulb?
- A: As many as it takes to make a pile big enough to climb on to reach the
- bulb.
- Notes: Ugh!
-
- Q: How many civil servants does it take to change the light bulb?
- A: 45. One to change the bulb, and 44 to do the paperwork.
-
- Q: How many junkies does it take to screw in a light bulb?
- A: Oh wow, is it like dark, man?
-
- Q: How many consultants does it take to change a light bulb?
- A: I'll have an estimate for you a week from Monday.
-
- Q: How many U.S marines does it take to screw in a light bulb ?
- A: 50. One to screw in the light bulb and the remaining 49 to guard him .
-
- Q: "How many Romulans does it take to screw in a light bulb?"
- A: "151, one to screw the light-bulb in, and 150 to self-destruct the
- ship out of disgrace."
- (Warning: do not tell this to Romulans or be ready for a fight. They
- consider this joke to be a disgrace, though it is not bad for a LBJ.)
-
- Q: How many editors of Poor Richard's Almanac does it take to replace a
- light bulb?
- A: Many hands make light work.
-
- Q: How many Vulcans does it take to change a light bulb?
- A: "Approximately 1.00000000000000000000000"
-
- Q: How many members of the U.S.S. Enterprise does it take to change a
- light bulb?
- A: 7. Scotty will report to Captain Kirk that the light bulb in the
- Engineering Section is burnt out, to which Kirk will send Bones to
- pronounce the bulb dead. Scotty, after checking around, notices that they
- have no more new light bulbs, and complains that he can't see in the dark
- to tend to his engines. Kirk must make an emergency stop at the next
- uncharted planet, Alpha Regula IV, to procure a light bulb from the
- natives. Kirk, Spock, Bones, Sulu, and 3 red shirt security officers beam
- down. The 3 security officers are promptly killed by the natives, and the
- rest of the landing party is captured. Meanwhile, back in orbit, Scotty
- notices a Klingon ship approaching and must warp out of orbit to escape
- detection. Bones cures the native king who is suffering from the flu, and
- as a reward the landing party is set free and given all of the light bulbs
- they can carry. Scotty cripples the Klingon ship and warps back to the
- planet just in time to beam up Kirk et. al. The new bulb is inserted, and
- the Enterprise continues with its five year mission.
-
- Q: How many efficiency experts does it take to replace a light bulb?
- A: None. Efficiency experts replace only dark bulbs.
-
- Q: How many Pygmies does it take to screw in a light bulb?
- A: At least three. (Notes: think height!)
-
- Q: How many actors does it take to change a light bulb?
- A: Only one. They don't like to share the spotlight.
-
- Q: How many Chinese Red Guards does it take to screw in a light bulb?
- A: 10,000 - to give the bulb a cultural revolution.
-
- Q: How many anarchists does it take to screw in a light bulb?
- A: All of them.
-
- Q: How many TV comedians does it take to screw in a light bulb?
- A: Two, one to screw it in, and another to say "Sock it to Me."
- (Notes: Sock it = Socket. Also, the phrase was from "Laugh In.")
-
- Q: Do you know how many musicians it takes to change a light bulb?
- A: No, big daddy, but hum a few bars and I'll fake it.
- A': Twenty. One to hold the bulb, two to turn the ladder, and seventeen
- in on the guest list.
-
- Q: How many mystery writers does it take to screw in a light bulb?
- A: Two, one to screw it almost all the way in and the other to give it a
- surprising twist at the end.
-
- Q: How many bikers does it take to change a light bulb?
- A: It takes two. One to change the bulb, and the other to kick the
- switch.
-
- Q: How many running-dog lackeys of the bourgeoisie does it take to change
- a light bulb?
- A: Two. One to exploit the proletariat, and one to control the means of
- production!
-
- Q: How many referral agents does it take to screw in a light bulb?
- A: Two: One to screw you out of a fee, and the other to send you to a
- store where they ran out of bulbs weeks ago.
-
- Q: How many existentialists does it take to screw in a light bulb?
- A: Two: One to screw it in and one to observe how the light bulb itself
- symbolizes a single incandescent beacon of subjective reality in a
- netherworld of endless absurdity reaching out toward a maudlin cosmos of
- nothingness.
-
- Q: How many dull people does it take to change a light bulb?
- A: one.
-
- Q: How many big black monoliths does it take to change a light bulb?
- A: Sorry, light bulbs are an evolutionary dead end.
-
- Q: How many light bulbs does it take to change a light bulb?
- A: One, if it knows its own Goedel number.
-
- Q: How many dadaists does it take to screw in a light bulb?
- A: To get to the other side.
-
- Q: How many mathematicians does it take to screw in a light bulb?
- A: None. It's left to the reader as an exercise.
- A': One. He gives it to six Californians, thereby reducing the problem to
- an earlier joke.
- A": One. He gives it to five Oregonians, thereby reducing the problem to
- an earlier joke.
- A'": In an earlier article, zeus!bobr writes:
-
- Q: How many mathematicians does it take to screw in a light bulb?
- A: One. He gives it to six Californians, thereby reducing the
- problem to an earlier joke...
-
- In earlier work, Wiener [1] has shown that one mathematician can
- change a light bulb.
- If k mathematicians can change a light bulb, and if one more simply
- watches them do it, then k+1 mathematicians will have changed the light
- bulb.
- Therefore, by induction, for all n in the positive integers,
- n mathematicians can change a light bulb.
- Bibliography:
- [1] Weiner, Matthew P., <11485@ucbvax>, "Re: YALBJ", 1986
-
- Q: How many consultants does it take to change a light bulb?
- A: We don't know. They never get past the feasibility study.
-
- Q: How many Ukrainians does it take to screw in a light bulb?
- A: They don't need to, they glow in the dark.
-
- Q: How many poets does it take to change a light bulb?
- A: Three. One to curse the darkness, one to light a candle...
- ... and one to change the bulb.
-
- Q: How many stock brokers does it take to change a light bulb?
- A: Two. One to take out the bulb and drop it, and the other to try and
- sell it before it crashes (knowing that it's already burned out).
-
- Q: How many aides does it take to change President Reagan's light bulb?
- A: None, they like to keep him in the dark.
-
- Q: How many magicians does it take to change a light bulb?
- A: Depends on what you want to change it into.
-
- Q: How many missionaries does it take to change a light bulb?
- A: 101. One to change it and 100 to convince everyone else to change
- light bulbs too.
-
- Q: How many Macintosh users does it take to change a light bulb?
- A: None. You have to replace the whole motherboard.
-
- Q: How many feminists does it take to screw in a lightbulb?
- A: Who cares as long as one of 'em sucks my cock.
-
- Q: How many feminists does it take to screw in a lightbulb?
- A: Two. One to screw in the lightbulb and the other to suck my cock.
-
- How many Soviet emigres does it take to change a light bulb?
- None. Soviet emigres aren't afraid to sit in the dark.
- One, and a lot of light bulbs.
- Two. One to hold the bulb, one to drink vodka until the room spins.
- Three. One to force the bulb in with a hammer, one to steal more bulbs,
- one to ask NYANA for a bigger hammer.
- Four. One to stand on a chair and hold the bulb, two to lift the chair by
- its legs, one to call an American and to ask which way to turn the chair.
-
- How many light bulbs does it take to change a Soviet emigre?
- One, if you aim well.
-
- What do a Soviet emigre and a fifteen-watt light bulb have in common?
- Neither one is very bright.
-
- A Soviet emigre climbs on a dinner table to change a light bulb. His
- girlfriend tries to put a newspaper under his dirty sneakers.
- ``Don't bother, I'll reach it anyway.''
-
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