Leslie's Omnibus

From the Rowdies in the Back of the Bus

Michelle Malkin usually takes the world to task. Today she takes a brief break from political stuff. She made ME laugh, I'll tell you. Especially that Air Force One thing.
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How many bloggers does it take to change a light bulb?

1 to change the light bulb and 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

41 to correct spelling/grammar flames

6 to argue over whether it's "lightbulb" or "light bulb"

2 industry professionals to inform the poster 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 blog is not about light bulbs and to please take this discussion to a lightbulb blog

203 to demand that cross posting to hardware blog, off-topic blog, and lightbulb blog about changing light bulbs be stopped

111 to defend the posting to this blog saying that we all use light bulbs and therefore the posts are relevant to this blog

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

3 to post about links they found from the URLs that are relevant to this blog, which makes light bulbs relevant to this blog

33 to link all posts to date, quote them in their entirety, and add "Me too"

12 to post to the blog 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 Google search on light bulbs before posting questions about light bulbs"

1 lurker to respond to the original post 6 months from now and start it all over again.
Leslie

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