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- From: franklin@ug.cs.dal.ca (Steve Franklin)
- Subject: Re: Is Light Bulb jokes summary file available?
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- Date: Mon, 28 Dec 1992 00:06:50 GMT
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- In article <1992Dec27.104218.5854@prime.mdata.fi> flink@mits.mdata.fi (Flinkman) writes:
-
- > Or if there isn't any file containing light bulb jokes, it at least
- > has demand.
-
- Why don't you just let us take out the socket? You aren't using it anyway, and
- it will only cause you trouble later.
-
- What's the difference between a pregnant woman and a light bulb? You can un-
- screw a light bulb.
-
- How many board meetings does it take to get a light bulb changed?
- 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 ...
-
- How many people does it take to throw away a one WATT bulb? Five: A black, a
- Jew, two women and a cripple. (topical to the resignation of Interior Sec.
- James Watt in 1983)
-
- How many ...
-
- Accountants?
- What kind of answer did you have in mind?
-
- Actors?
- One: They don't like to share the spotlight.
-
- Aides to change Ronald Reagan's light bulb?
- None: They like to keep him in the dark.
-
- Alabama alumni?
- Three: One to change the bulb and two to talk about how good the old
- one was.
-
- Alcoholics?
- One: He holds the bulb and the world spins around him.
-
- Amish?
- Amish don't have light bulbs, they bake pies.
-
- Anarchists?
- All of them.
-
- Apple and IBM nuts?
- An infinite number: nothing useful gets done while they're arguing.
- Finally a disgusted generic computer user (who will use any type that is in
- front of him) gets up and changes the bulb, elbowing the participants aside.
- The size of the crowd arguing seems to be a function of time, although whether
- or not the function is exponential is not known.
-
- A**holes?
- None: They never see the light anyway.
-
- Astronomers?
- None: they prefer the dark.
-
- Atheists?
- None: They're never in the dark.
- How many light bulbs does it take to fix an atheist?
- It doesn't matter. They wouldn't glow anyway.
-
- Auto mechanics?
- Two: One to try to put in the wrong bulb, and one to replace the
- socket.
- Six: One to force it with a hammer, and five more to go out for more
- bulbs.
-
- Ayatollahs?
- None: there were no light bulbs in the 13th century.
-
- Babysitters?
- None: Pampers aren't made small enough.
-
- Bankers?
- Four: one to hold the bulb, and three to try to remember the combo.
-
- Bass players?
- Six: One to change it, five to fight off the lead guitarists who are
- hogging the light.
-
- Believable, competent, "just right for the job" presidential
- candidates?
- It's going to be a dark 4 years, isn't it?
-
- Bell Labs VP's?
- That's proprietary information. Answer available from AT&T on
- payment of license fees (available in binary only).
- Nearly unanswerable, since the one who tries to change it
- usually drops it, and the others call for a planning session.
- Three: One to get the bulb, and two to get the phone number of one of
- their subordinates to do the job.
-
- Beverly hills realtors?
- Three: one to screw it in and two to learn Arabic.
-
- Big black monoliths?
- Sorry, light bulbs are an evolutionary dead end.
-
- Bikers?
- Two: one to change the bulb, the other to kick the switch.
-
- Blacks?
- Three: One to boogie up the ladder, two to keep the beat.
-
- Bluegrass musicians?
- Two: one to screw it in, and one to complain that it's electrified.
-
- Bratzlaver Chassidims?
- None: They will never find one that burns as brightly as the
- first.
-
- Brewers?
- About one third less than for a regular bulb.
-
- Brokers?
- 100: 99 to climb the staircase, and one to say he wasn't hurt in the
- crash.
- MY GOD!! IT BURNED OUT!! SELL ALL MY GE STOCK NOW!!!!!!
- Two: one to take the bulb out and drop it and one to try to sell it
- before it crashes.
-
- Bureaucrats?
- None: "We contract out for things like that."
- Two: One to screw it in and one to screw it up.
- Two: One to assure that everything possible is being done while
- the other screw the bulb into the water faucet.
- Five: One to change the bulb and four to write an environmental impact
- report.
- An infinite number: One to spot the burned out bulb, his supervisor to
- authorize a requisition, a requisition typist, twelve clerks to file the
- requisition copies, a mail clerk to deliver the requisition to the purchasing
- department, a purchasing agent to order the bulb, a clerk to forward the
- purchasing order, a clerk to mail-order a receiving clerk to receive the
- new bulb ...
-
- Bush campaign aides?
- (Bush in an earnest lap dog voice) NONE! I think the media's
- keeping this thing alive! I think the American people are TIRED of
- light bulb jokes!
-
- Cabbage Patch Dolls?
- The question is irrelevant since you couldn't find the dolls
- even if you knew the answer.
-
- Californians?
- Seven: One to screw in the bulb, six to experience it.
- Six: One to turn the bulb, one for support, and four to relate
- to the experience.
- They don't screw in light bulbs, they screw in hot tubs.
-
- Capitalists?
- Two: One to screw in the new bulb, one to market the old one.
-
- Carl Sagans?
- Billions and billions.
-
- Chinese Red Guards?
- 10,000: To give the bulb a cultural revolution.
-
- Chiropractors?
- Only one, but it takes nine visits.
-
- Christians?
- Three, but they're really only one.
-
- Christian Scientists?
- None, but it takes at least one to sit and pray for the old one
- to go back on.
-
- Circus performers?
- Four: One for the money, two for the show, three to get ready, and four
- to go!
-
- Civil servants?
- 45: One to change the bulb, and 44 to do the paperwork.
-
- "Cliffie Girls"?
- It's "Radcliffe women", and it's not funny!
-
- College students?
- Two, but they both get 10 credits for doing it.
-
- Computer security experts?
- "That depends on the TCSEC rating of the object light bulb. If it's a
- C2 bulb (or below), one. If a B1 bulb, just one, but he/she must document the
- potential covert channel. If a B2 bulb, he/she must also audit the covert
- channel. If a B3/A1 bulb, none, since covert channels are not allowed. [See
- also the "Orange Book"]
-
- Conservatives?
- None: they liked the old one so much that nothing could compare to it.
-
- Consultants?
- I'll have an estimate for you a week from Monday.
- We don't know. They never get past the feasibility study.
- Two: One always leaves in the middle of the project.
-
- Cops?
- None: It turns itself in.
- One, but he's always at the donut shop when you need him.
-
- Country singers?
- Three: One to change it, two to sing about the old one.
-
- Dadaists?
- To get to the other side?
-
- Daleks?
- Daleks don't change light bulbs, they level the building.
- 1,500,000: To conquer a race than can climb ladders.
-
- DBase People?
- Three: One to write the light bulb removal program, one to
- write the bulb insertion program, and one to act as the bulb admin-
- istrator to make sure nobody else tries to change the bulb at the same
- time.
-
- Dead Babies?
- As many as it takes to make a pile big enough to climb on to
- reach the bulb.
-
- Democratic presidential candidates (1988)?
- (Mike Dukakis) In Massachusetts, my enlightened government has
- mad it unnecessary for people to screw in their own light bulbs, as we
- have put thousands of former welfare recipients to work for the Dept.
- of Light Bulb Installation. These employees will come to your home or
- business and install any incandescent bulb, on only a few months notice.
- (Bruce Babbitt) It's foolish to talk about screwing in light
- bulbs when we haven't even taken the first step, and that is to remove
- the old bulb. I challenge my fellow candidates to stand up with me and
- help me remove this old light bulb [stands, but nobody else does] Hah!
- What wimps. You guys make Bush look like Rambo.
- (Richard Gephart) It doesn't matter whether the bulb is changed
- or not; it only matters that the new bulb was made in the US of A.
- Taiwan and South Korea have put up massive barriers to importing US
- light bulbs; we'll see how they like it when their bulbs cost $10,000
- to screw in here.
- (Gary Hart) This oblique reference to screwing is an obvious
- attempt to drag my personal life into this campaign. Frankly, I resent
- it, and the American people resent it.
- (Al Gore) As usual, the other left-wing wacko candidates are
- putting forth solutions that moderate Southerners won't cotton to on
- Super Tuesday. At least I hope not.
- (Paul Simon) My media experts tell me I'm foolish for wearing
- my hair the same way I did in the 50's. But that's what Paul Simon's
- all about. And I suppose my media experts are gonna say I'm foolish for
- this, but in all candor, I change my light bulbs the smae way I did in
- the 50's: my wife gets on a ladder and I turn it.
- (Jesse Jackson) Changing the light bulb is a partial solution
- at best. I'm more of a Lone Ranger than a light bulb changer. But even
- the Lone Ranger had Tonto and Silver, and the shameful fact is that the
- American Indians of today don't have enough solver, or gold, or even
- paper money to allow them to buy into the American Dream or some extra
- light bulbs. We must ensure that all Americans can light their homes,
- >from the lighthouse to the White House.
-
- Doctors?
- Three: One to find a bulb specialist, one to find a bulb
- installation specialist, and one to bill it all to Medicare.
- That depends on whether it has health insurance.
- One, but he has a nurse tell him which end to screw in.
-
- Dope addicts?
- Two: One to roll it, and one to light it up.
-
- Drummers?
- Only one, but he'll break ten bulbs before figuring out that they can't
- just be pushed in.
- One, but only after asking "Why?"
- Two: one to hold the bulb, and one to turn his throne (but only after
- they figure out that you have to turn the bulb).
-
- Drunks?
- Five: One to hold the bulb, four to watch the room spin.
-
- Dull people?
- One.
-
- Economists?
- Two: One to assume the latter (a pun) and change the bulb.
- None: If the government would just leave it alone, it would
- screw itself in.
-
- Editors?
- Two: One to change the bulb, and one to issue a rejection slip to the
- old bulb.
-
- Editors of Poor Richard's Almanac?
- Many hands make light work.
-
- Efficiency experts?
- None: They only replace dark bulbs.
- Two: One to change the bulb and one to issue a rejection slip to the
- old one.
-
- Emergency room technicians?
- One, but the bulb will have to wait 45 minutes in the waiting room.
-
- Ergonomicists?
- Five: Four to decide which way it ought to turn, and ...
-
- <etnhic> American Princesses?
- Two: One to call Daddy, and one to open the Diet Pepsi.
-
- <ethnic> gods?
- Two: One to hold the bulb, and one to turn the planet.
-
- <ethnic>s?
- None, but one is enough to screw up the joke.
- Ten: One to hold the bulb, and nine to turn the ladder.
-
- European ballet dancers?
- None: they like Danzig in the dark.
-
- Evolutionists?
- One, but it takes over eight million years.
-
- Existentialists?
- 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.
-
- Fatalists?
- "What does it matter? We're all going to die anyway."
-
- Federal Employees?
- Sorry, that's been cut from the budget.
-
- Feminists?
- "That's not funny!"
- Two: One to change the bulb, and one to write about how it feels.
- Two: One to screw it in, and one to kick the balls off any man trying
- to help the first.
- Three: One to screw it in, and two to talk about the sexual
- implications.
- Three: One to change the bulb, and two to secretly wish they were the
- socket.
- Four: One to change it, and three to write about how the bulb is
- exploiting the socket.
-
- Field service engineers?
- Five: one to hold it, and four to pound it in.
-
- Firemen?
- Four: Three to cut a hole in the roof, and one to change it.
-
- Folk Singers?
- Two: One to change the bulb, and one to write a song about how
- good the old one was.
-
- Football players?
- The whole team, and they all get a semester's credit for it.
-
- Frat men?
- Three: One to screw it in, and two to help him down off the keg.
- Five: One to hold the bulb and four to drink until the room
- spins.
-
- FSE's?
- Who can tell? They are always in the dark.
- Two: One to hold the bulb, and one to pound it in.
- How long will it take?
- That's indeterminate. It depends on how many dead
- bulbs they've brought with them.
- What if there are two dead bulbs?
- They replace the fuse box.
-
- Fundamentalists?
- "The Bible doesn't mention light bulbs."
-
- Gardeners?
- One. The new light bulbs are just as easy to change as the old ones.
-
- Gas fitters?
- Three: One to turn it up the day before when you're out, one to change
- the switch, and one to bring along the wrong kind of bulb.
-
- Gay rights activists?
- None: The bulb shouldn't have to change for society to accept it.
-
- Gays?
- Two: One to screw it in, the other to say "Fabulous!"
-
- Generals?
- 1,000,001: One to change the bulb, and 1 million to rebuild
- civilization to the point where they need light bulbs again.
-
- Gorillas?
- One, but it takes tons of light bulbs.
-
- Graduate students?
- I don't know, but make my stipend tax-free, give my advisor a
- $100,000 grant of the taxpayer's money, and I'm sure he can tell me
- how to do the work for him so he can take the credit for answering this
- incredibly vital question.
- One, but it may take him upward of five years to do it.
-
- Greek gods?
- Two: one to hold the bulb, the other to turn the planet.
-
- Grocery store cashiers?
- None: They won't even change a dollar.
-
- Gypsies?
- None, but you lose a lot of light bulbs.
-
- Hackers?
- "You mean it's dark in here?"
-
- Hardware Engineers?
- None: That's a software project.
- None: They always work in the dark.
- None: They just have marketing portray the dead bulb as a
- feature.
- None: "We'll code around it."
- None: "The diagnostics check, so it must be software."
-
- Harvard students?
- One: He holds the bulb, and the universe spins around him.
-
- Helmsley employees?
- 100: 99 to try, and one to fire them all.
-
- Homophobics?
- None: They refuse to do it because they're terrified that the sockets
- aren't really female.
- It obviously has to be done by just one. They don't screw around with
- other men.
- Two: One to do it, and one to get the sterile rubber gloves because
- it's possible that a gay touched the bulb before him.
- None: They prefer that the bulb stay in the closet.
-
- IBM People?
- One, provided there's an engineer around to explain how to do it.
- 100: Ten to change the bulb, and ninety to write a 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 spaces."
-
- Illinois basketball players?
- One, but he gets money, a car, and three credit hours for it.
-
- Insects?
- Only two. Well, how many do you think it should take?
-
- Irishmen?
- Twenty. One to hold the bulb, and nineteen to drink until the
- room spins.
-
- Japanese industrialists?
- Three: One to make sure that the new bulb is not foreign made, one to
- change it, and one to look into the export potential of the old bulb.
-
- Jewish American princesses?
- Three: Two to bitch about it, one to call the building superintendant.
-
- Jewish Mothers?
- None: "That's all right - I'll just sit in the dark ...."
-
- Jugglers?
- One, but it takes at least three bulbs.
-
- Junkies?
- "Oh, wow! Is it like dark, man?"
-
- Keyboardists?
- "Oh, just one. But this bulb won't do. You want to use a 3-way bulb,
- but if you can afford it, I hear that next month GE will be coming out .... "
- Two: One to screw in the bulb, and one to patch it into the Korg.
- Two: One to change the bulb and one to say "Yeah, that sounds just
- like it."
-
- KGB agents?
- Two: One to screw it in and the other to check for microphones.
-
- Lawyers?
- How many can you afford?
-
- Lead guitarists?
- Six: One to change it, five to say "I could've done it better."
-
- Lead singers?
- One: He holds the bulb while the world revolves around him.
- None: Get the bass player to do it.
-
- Lesbians?
- Three: One to screw it in, and two to talk about how much
- better it was than with a man.
-
- Liberals?
- None: They can't remove the old ones since they are already part of
- the environment.
- One and 28 delegates representing all the social, economic and ethnic
- communities.
-
- Libertarians?
- None: They don't change them because someone might enter the room who
- wants to sit in the dark.
-
- Light bulb joke tellers?
- 100: One to change the bulb, and 99 to make stupid jokes about it.
-
- Light bulbs?
- One if it knows its own Goedel number.
-
- Loggers?
- One, but he needs a chainsaw to do it.
-
- Mac users?
- One, but it costs $4000 and you have to replace the motherboard.
- None: You have to replace the motherboard.
- Two: One to ask the socket to eject the old bulb, and one to insert
- the new one.
- Three: One to change the bulb, one to copyright the method for
- changing the bulb, and one to call in the lawyers on anyone who
- infringes on the"look and feel" of the bulb changing method.
-
- Magicians?
- That depends on what you want to change it into.
-
- Mahayana Buddhists?
- Four: One to screw in the light bulb, one to not screw in the light
- bulb, one to not not screw in the light bulb, and one to not do any of these.
-
- Marginals?
- Two: One to screw it in real good, and one to call the proctologist.
-
- Martians?
- 1.5
-
- Marxists?
- None: the bulb contains the seeds of its own revolution.
-
- Masseuses?
- "Whatever turns you on, baby."
-
- Mathematicians?
- None: It's left as an exercise to the reader.
- One: He gives it to six Californians, thereby reducing the
- problem to an earlier joke.
-
- Medflies?
- None: they do it in the fruit.
-
- Members of the USS Enterprise?
- Seven: Scotty will report to Captain Kirk that the light bulb
- in engineering has burned out, to which Kirk will send Bones to pro-
- nounce the bulb dead. Scotty, after checking aroud, 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 three security officers are promptly killed
- by the natives, and the rest of the landing party is captured. Mean-
- while, 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.
-
- Men?
- One, and one more to change it, and one more to keep track of how many
- there are, and a woman to soothe their minds and provide wax jobs.
-
- Mice?
- Two, but the hard part is getting them into the bulb.
-
- Missionaries?
- 101: One to change the bulb, 100 to convince everyone else to
- change light bulbs too.
-
- Musicians?
- I don't know, Big Daddy, but hum a few bars and I'll fake it.
- Twenty: One to hold the bulb, two to turn the ladder, and 17 on
- the guest list.
-
- Mystery writers?
- Two: One to screw it almost all the way, and the other to give
- it an exciting and surprising twist at the end.
-
- National Security Council members?
- "We can't say."
- Three in fourteen different countries.
-
- NCAA Div. IA football players?
- Just one, but he gets three units for it.
-
- Necrophiliacs?
- None: they prefer dead bulbs.
- One: "Oh, excuse me, could you please test the socket with your
- finger while I go get a new bulb?"
-
- New Jersey People?
- Three: One to change the bulb, one to be a witness, and one to
- shoot the witness.
-
- Newsmen?
- One, but he'll tell everybody all about it.
-
- New Yorkers?
- None o' yo' damn business!
- Fifty. Fifty? Yeah; it's in the contract.
-
- Nuclear Engineers?
- 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.
- Ten: One to change the bulb, nine to lie to the NRC.
-
- Nuclear War Survivors?
- None: People who glow in the dark don't need light bulbs.
-
- Oregonians?
- Five: One to change the bulb, and four to chase off the Calif-
- ornians who came up to relate the experience.
- Nine: One to change the bulb, and eight to protest the nuclear
- power plant that generates the electricity that powers it.
-
- Oxbridge students?
- One: He holds the bulb and the world revolves around him.
-
- PhD's?
- Five: One to write the grant proposal, one to do the mathematical
- modelling, one to type the research paper, one to submit the paper for
- publishing, and one to hire a student to do the work.
-
- People?
- It takes two to screw anywhere, stupid.
-
- Pessimists?
- "None. The old one is probably screwed in too tightly."
-
- Platonists?
- They don't change bulbs, they have nice fires in their caves and if
- they need light they go out and look at the sun.
-
- Poets?
- Three: One to curse the darkness, one to light a candle .....
- ....... and one to change the bulb.
-
- Polacks?
- Three: One to hold the bulb, and two to turn the first man.
- Five: One to hold the bulb, and four to turn the ladder.
- 6,807: One to hold the bulb, the rest to turn the house.
- One, but you need 6000 Russian guards in case he goes on
- strike.
-
- Policemen?
- None: It turns itself in.
-
- Politicians?
- 1,000,000,001: One to change the bulb, the rest to rebuild the
- civilization to the point where they need light bulbs again.
-
- Pollsters?
- None: They work in the dark.
-
- Poor Richard's Almanac editors?
- Many hands make light work.
-
- Pre-med Students?
- Five: One to change the bulb, and four to pull the ladder from
- under him.
-
- Presidential candidates?
- Less and less all the time.
-
- Procrastinators?
- One, but he has to wait until the light is better.
-
- Professors?
- One, but he gets three technical reports out of it.
-
- Programmers?
- "That's a hardware problem."
-
- Pro-Lifers?
- Six: Two to screw in the new light bulb, and four to testify
- that it was lit from the moment that they began screwing.
-
- Psychiatrists?
- One, but the bulb has got to really want to change.
- None: The bulb will change itself when it is ready.
-
- Psychoanalysts?
- "How many do you think it takes?"
-
- Punk rockers?
- Two: One to screw in the bulb and the other to smash the old one on
- his forehead.
- Seven: One to get on the chair and six to get on the guest list.
-
- Pygmies?
- At least three. (Think height)
-
- Reaganists?
- Ten: One to deny that the bulb is burned out, one to clarify
- the denial ("The bulb is really just dim"), one to blame the bulb burn-
- ing out on the Carter administration, one to blame the bulb burning
- out on Congress, one to ask for a Constitutional amendment that will
- prohibit bulbs from burning out, one to replace the bulb with a
- kerosene lamp, one to borrow money from the Japanese to pay for the
- kerosene, one former Reaganist to lobby his old colleagues for a special
- favor for the kerosene importer, one to cash the check for investing
- in the kerosene importer, one to send the bill to the next generation.
-
- Real Men?
- None: Real men aren't afraid of the dark.
- None of your damn business!
-
- Real Women?
- None: A real woman has plenty of real men around to do the job.
-
- Referral agents?
- Two: One to screw you out of a fee, and the other to send you
- to a store where they ran out of bulb weeks ago.
-
- Republicans?
- Four: One to change the bulb, and three to talk about how much brighter
- the old one was.
-
- Republican Presidential candidates (1988)?
- (Dole) When I was a poot boy growing up in Kansas we didn't
- have light bulbs. Now I have the housekeeper do it.
- (DuPont) Light bulbs need to be changed? Gosh. I guess the ser-
- vants have always taken care of that... With a DuPont administration,
- the power of the free market will be unleashed to produce light bulbs
- that never need changing.
- (Robertson) Oh, Lord, with thy divine illumination, heal this
- light bulb!
- (Kemp) It's morning in America! Why should we worry about light
- bulbs? Let those doom-crying Democrats worry about light bulbs! [stumble
- over chair in the dark].
- (Haig) One. Snap to it, soldier!
- (Bush) I resent that question. I've answered it before, and I
- think the media are keeping this thing alive. I think the American
- people are TIRED of light bulb jokes.
-
- Roadies?
- One, two, three, testing .....
-
- Roman Catholics?
- Two: One to screw it in, one to repent.
-
- Romanians?
- 60,000 dead and 300,000 injured.
- None: Ceaucescu restricted them to use only one 40 watt bulb per
- family to save electricity.
-
- Romulans?
- 151: One to screw it in, and 150 to self-destruct the ship out
- of disgrace. (Warning: do not tell this one to a Romulan unless you are ready
- for a fight. They consider it a disgrace)
-
- Running-dog lackeys of the Bourgeoisie?
- Two: One to exploit the proletariat, one to control the means
- of production.
-
- Russian Leaders?
- Nobody knows. They don't last long enough to change the bulb.
-
- Security guards at a Grateful Dead concert?
- 21: One to change the bulb, the rest to fatally beat the Deadhead who
- was only there to look at the light.
-
- Sexists?
- None: Their girls will do it for them.
-
- Sex therapists?
- Two: One to screw it in and one to tell him he's screwing it in the
- wrong way.
-
- Singers?
- "Impossible. The altitude may put unnecessary strain on my vocal
- chords. Have the bassist do it."
-
- Sound men?
- "Hey man, I just do sound."
- One: Upon finding no replacement, he takes the original apart, repairs
- it with a chewing gum wrapper and duct tape, changes the screw mount to
- bayonet mount, finds an appropriate patch cable, and re-installs the bulb
- fifty feet from where it should have been, to the satisfaction of the rest of
- the band.
-
- Straight San Franciscans?
- Both of them.
-
- Strong Polacks?
- 115: One to hold the bulb and the rest to turn the house.
-
- Software Engineers?
- None: That's a hardware problem.
- None: "We'll document it as a feature."
- One, but if he changes it, the whole building will probably
- collapse.
- Two: One will always leave in the middle of the project.
-
- Sorority Sisters?
- 51: One to change the bulb, 50 to sing about it being changed.
- The entire chapter: One to change it, and the rest to stand around,
- and clap and sing about it.
-
- Sound men?
- One, but instead of using a new bulb (which he doesn't have), he opens
- up the old bulb, uses a bit of scavenged wire and duct tape to reattach the
- filament, replaces the screw in connector with an audio jack, strings a cable
- up through the rafters and reinstalls the whole thing fifty feet away where
- the band decides it's much better.
-
- Stock brokers?
- Two: One to take out the bulb and drop it, and the other to try
- to sell it before it crashes (knowing that it's already burned out).
-
- Strong <ethnic>s?
- 115: One to hold the bulb, the rest to turn the house.
-
- Supply-siders?
- None: The darkness will cause the bulb to change by itself.
-
- Surrealists?
- Fish.
- Ten. Three to hold the giraffe, and seven to shovel the pacific
- into the bathtub.
-
- Synth players?
- Only one, but if you wait until next month, Yamaha will have a new
- model bulb out which is much better.
- None: I've got a candle that looks just like it.
-
- Teachers?
- One if at home, but on school time, four.
-
- Teamsters?
- Twelve. Ya got a problem with that?
-
- Technical writers?
- None: It should be obvious to an intelligent user.
- One, provided there's a programmer around to explain how to do it.
-
- Televangelists?
- None: They screw in hotel rooms.
-
- Thomas Edisons?
- None: He doesn't change them, he makes them.
-
- Thought police?
- None: There never was a light bulb.
-
- Tourists?
- Six: One to hold the bulb and five to ask for directions.
-
- TV Comedians?
- Two: One to screw it in, one to say "Sock it to me." (Note: the line
- is from "Laugh In" [it's also a bad pun])
-
- UNIX gurus?
- One, but first he has to determine the correct path.
-
- UNIX Hackers?
- As many as you want - they're all virtual anyway.
-
- Ukranians?
- They don't need to, they glow in the dark.
-
- US Marines?
- 50: one to screw it in, 49 to guard him.
-
- Valley Girls?
- OOoh, like manual labor? Gag me with a spoon! For sure!
-
- Vulcans?
- Approximately 1.0000000000000000000000000000000000000001.
-
- Waiters?
- None: Even a burned out bulb can't get the waiter's attention.
-
- WASP's (White Anglo-Saxon Protestants) ?
- Two: One to call the electrician, and one to mix martinis.
- Californian WASP's don't screw in light bulbs, they screw in
- hot tubs.
-
- WASP princesses?
- Two: One to get a Tab(tm) and one to call Dad.
-
- Zen Masters?
- A tree in a golden forest.
- Two: One to change it, and one not to change it.
- One to change it and one not to change it is fake Zen. The true Zen
- answer is four. One to change it.
- None: They carry their own light.
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