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Light Bulb Joke

This was writting in May 1996 after a few SLNetters got really ticked off with me for attacking their favorite government in my previous Top Ten list. No, this was not sent out over the SLNet.

Date: Mon, 20 May 1996 12:19:09 -0400 (EDT)
From: "Prasad K. Dharmasena" 
To: slnet-admin@lacnet.org
Subject: SLNet LBJ

How many SLNetters does it take to change a light bulb?

It takes 11 + 3000 ... sort of ...

  2 people (out of about 3000+) to notice that the old one has burnt out.

  One to write a top ten list about light bulbs.

  One to say that the govenment has had very good relations with those who
  point out the burnt out light bulb.

  One to say that previously burnt out bulb was much worse, so the current
  one really hasn't burnt out.

  One to say that the old bulb was a terrorist so it deserves burning 
  out anyway.

  One to say that the old bulb was a freedom fighter and it attained 
  the martyrdom.

  One to say that changing light bulbs is against the constitution.

  One to say that standardized bulbs are better because that way all the
  bulbs are equal.

  One to say that standardized bulbs are worse because that way one kind
  of bulb is better off.

  One to request more information about light bulbs before trying to
  change it.

  The rest to say that they are too busy to look at any light bulbs 
  this semester... perhaps, next semester, maybe.

No one really changes the bulb.  Everybody stands in the dark and points
out that it is not his fault that the bulb burnt out in the first place.

Prasad Dharmasena