Re: How many subscribers does it take to change a light bulb?

["Derick Wuen" <cullend@webone.com.au>]

Gareth Lumsden wrote in message ...
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>A warm thanks goes to those who replied to this post!
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>The "friendly" people are still here!
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>I half-expected to flamed for posting non-rail stuff (even though trains
>do use light "bulbs")
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>Gareth.
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>On Tue, 13 Jul 1999, Daniel Nightingale wrote:
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>> David Johnson wrote in message <3789FFB3.F0A55CFA@ozemail.com.au>...
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>> >David Langley wrote:
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>> >> Gareth Lumsden wrote:
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>> >> > Q: How many internet mail list subscribers does it take to change a
>> light
>> >> > bulb?
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>> >> > A: 1,343 -  1 to change the light bulb and to post to the mail list
>> that
>> >> > the light bulb has been changed;
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Try this one which I snitched from alt.limericks......

"He's sending us spam," you will say,
but I thot you'd like this anyway.
though found in rec.ponds
it goes quite beyond
and all groups should see this today.

Gilbert & Sullivan Online

I am the very model of a Newsgroup personality.
I intersperse obscenity with tedious banality.
Addresses I have plenty of, both genuine and ghosted too,
On all the countless newsgroups that my drivel is cross-posted to.
Your bandwidth I will fritter with my whining and my snivelling,
And you're the one who pays the bill, downloading all my drivelling.
My enemies are numerous, and no-one would be blaming you
For cracking my head open after I've been rudely flaming you.

I hate to lose an argument (by now I should be used to it).
I wouldn't know a valid point if I was introduced to it.
My learning is extensive but consists of mindless trivia,
Designed to fan my ego, which is larger than Bolivia.
The comments that I vomit forth, disguised as jest and drollery,
Are really just an exercise in unremitting trollery.
I say I'm frank and forthright, but that's merely lies and vanity,
The gibberings of one who's at the limits of his sanity.

If only I could get a life, as many people tell me to;
If only Mom could find a circus freak-show she could sell me to;
If I go off to Zanzibar to paint the local scenery;
If I lose all my fingers in a mishap with machinery;
If I survive to twenty, which is somewhat problematical;
If what I post was more mature, or slightly more grammatical;
If I could learn to spell a bit, and maybe even punctuate;
Would I still be the loathsome and objectionable punk you hate?

But while I have this tiresome urge to prance around and show my face,
It simply isn't safe for normal people here in cyberspace.
To stick me in Old Sparky and turn on the electricity
Would be a fitting punishment for my egocentricity.
I always have the last word; so, with uttermost finality,
That's all from me, the model of a Newsgroup personality.

don't know where it originated.


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