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Why don't you just let us take out the socket? You aren't using it anyway, and
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it will only cause you trouble later.
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What's the difference between a pregnant woman and a light bulb? You can un-
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screw a light bulb.
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How many board meetings does it take to get a light bulb changed?
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This topic was resumed from last week's discussion, but is incomplete
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pending resolution of some action items. It will be continued next week.
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Meanwhile ...
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How many people does it take to throw away a one WATT bulb? Five: A black, a
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Jew, two women and a cripple. (topical to the resignation of Interior Sec.
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James Watt in 1983)
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How many ...
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Accountants?
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What kind of answer did you have in mind?
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Actors?
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One: They don't like to share the spotlight.
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Aides to change Ronald Reagan's light bulb?
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None: They like to keep him in the dark.
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Alabama alumni?
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Three: One to change the bulb and two to talk about how good the old
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one was.
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Alcoholics?
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One: He holds the bulb and the world spins around him.
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Amish?
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Amish don't have light bulbs, they bake pies.
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Anarchists?
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All of them.
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Apple and IBM nuts?
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An infinite number: nothing useful gets done while they're arguing.
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Finally a disgusted generic computer user (who will use any type that is in
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front of him) gets up and changes the bulb, elbowing the participants aside.
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The size of the crowd arguing seems to be a function of time, although whether
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or not the function is exponential is not known.
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A**holes?
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None: They never see the light anyway.
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Astronomers?
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None: they prefer the dark.
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Atheists?
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None: They're never in the dark.
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How many light bulbs does it take to fix an atheist?
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It doesn't matter. They wouldn't glow anyway.
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Auto mechanics?
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Two: One to try to put in the wrong bulb, and one to replace the
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socket.
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Six: One to force it with a hammer, and five more to go out for more
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bulbs.
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Ayatollahs?
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None: there were no light bulbs in the 13th century.
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Babysitters?
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None: Pampers aren't made small enough.
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Bankers?
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Four: one to hold the bulb, and three to try to remember the combo.
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Bass players?
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Six: One to change it, five to fight off the lead guitarists who are
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hogging the light.
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Believable, competent, "just right for the job" presidential
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candidates?
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It's going to be a dark 4 years, isn't it?
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Bell Labs VP's?
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That's proprietary information. Answer available from AT&T on
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payment of license fees (available in binary only).
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Nearly unanswerable, since the one who tries to change it
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usually drops it, and the others call for a planning session.
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Three: One to get the bulb, and two to get the phone number of one of
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their subordinates to do the job.
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Beverly hills realtors?
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Three: one to screw it in and two to learn Arabic.
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Big black monoliths?
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Sorry, light bulbs are an evolutionary dead end.
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Bikers?
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Two: one to change the bulb, the other to kick the switch.
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Blacks?
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Three: One to boogie up the ladder, two to keep the beat.
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Bluegrass musicians?
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Two: one to screw it in, and one to complain that it's electrified.
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Bratzlaver Chassidims?
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None: They will never find one that burns as brightly as the
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first.
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Brewers?
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About one third less than for a regular bulb.
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Brokers?
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100: 99 to climb the staircase, and one to say he wasn't hurt in the
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crash.
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MY GOD!! IT BURNED OUT!! SELL ALL MY GE STOCK NOW!!!!!!
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Two: one to take the bulb out and drop it and one to try to sell it
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before it crashes.
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Bureaucrats?
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None: "We contract out for things like that."
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Two: One to screw it in and one to screw it up.
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Two: One to assure that everything possible is being done while
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the other screw the bulb into the water faucet.
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Five: One to change the bulb and four to write an environmental impact
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report.
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An infinite number: One to spot the burned out bulb, his supervisor to
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authorize a requisition, a requisition typist, twelve clerks to file the
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requisition copies, a mail clerk to deliver the requisition to the purchasing
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department, a purchasing agent to order the bulb, a clerk to forward the
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purchasing order, a clerk to mail-order a receiving clerk to receive the
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new bulb ...
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Bush campaign aides?
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(Bush in an earnest lap dog voice) NONE! I think the media's
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keeping this thing alive! I think the American people are TIRED of
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light bulb jokes!
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Cabbage Patch Dolls?
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The question is irrelevant since you couldn't find the dolls
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even if you knew the answer.
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Californians?
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Seven: One to screw in the bulb, six to experience it.
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Six: One to turn the bulb, one for support, and four to relate
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to the experience.
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They don't screw in light bulbs, they screw in hot tubs.
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Capitalists?
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Two: One to screw in the new bulb, one to market the old one.
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Carl Sagans?
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Billions and billions.
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Chinese Red Guards?
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10,000: To give the bulb a cultural revolution.
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Chiropractors?
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Only one, but it takes nine visits.
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Christians?
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Three, but they're really only one.
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Christian Scientists?
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None, but it takes at least one to sit and pray for the old one
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to go back on.
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Circus performers?
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Four: One for the money, two for the show, three to get ready, and four
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to go!
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Civil servants?
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45: One to change the bulb, and 44 to do the paperwork.
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"Cliffie Girls"?
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It's "Radcliffe women", and it's not funny!
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College students?
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Two, but they both get 10 credits for doing it.
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Computer security experts?
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"That depends on the TCSEC rating of the object light bulb. If it's a
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C2 bulb (or below), one. If a B1 bulb, just one, but he/she must document the
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potential covert channel. If a B2 bulb, he/she must also audit the covert
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channel. If a B3/A1 bulb, none, since covert channels are not allowed. [See
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also the "Orange Book"]
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Conservatives?
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None: they liked the old one so much that nothing could compare to it.
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Consultants?
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I'll have an estimate for you a week from Monday.
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We don't know. They never get past the feasibility study.
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Two: One always leaves in the middle of the project.
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Cops?
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None: It turns itself in.
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One, but he's always at the donut shop when you need him.
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Country singers?
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Three: One to change it, two to sing about the old one.
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Dadaists?
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To get to the other side?
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Daleks?
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Daleks don't change light bulbs, they level the building.
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1,500,000: To conquer a race than can climb ladders.
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DBase People?
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Three: One to write the light bulb removal program, one to
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write the bulb insertion program, and one to act as the bulb admin-
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istrator to make sure nobody else tries to change the bulb at the same
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time.
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Dead Babies?
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As many as it takes to make a pile big enough to climb on to
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reach the bulb.
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Democratic presidential candidates (1988)?
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(Mike Dukakis) In Massachusetts, my enlightened government has
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mad it unnecessary for people to screw in their own light bulbs, as we
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have put thousands of former welfare recipients to work for the Dept.
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of Light Bulb Installation. These employees will come to your home or
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business and install any incandescent bulb, on only a few months notice.
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(Bruce Babbitt) It's foolish to talk about screwing in light
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bulbs when we haven't even taken the first step, and that is to remove
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the old bulb. I challenge my fellow candidates to stand up with me and
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help me remove this old light bulb [stands, but nobody else does] Hah!
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What wimps. You guys make Bush look like Rambo.
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(Richard Gephart) It doesn't matter whether the bulb is changed
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or not; it only matters that the new bulb was made in the US of A.
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Taiwan and South Korea have put up massive barriers to importing US
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light bulbs; we'll see how they like it when their bulbs cost $10,000
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to screw in here.
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(Gary Hart) This oblique reference to screwing is an obvious
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attempt to drag my personal life into this campaign. Frankly, I resent
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it, and the American people resent it.
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(Al Gore) As usual, the other left-wing wacko candidates are
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putting forth solutions that moderate Southerners won't cotton to on
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Super Tuesday. At least I hope not.
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(Paul Simon) My media experts tell me I'm foolish for wearing
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my hair the same way I did in the 50's. But that's what Paul Simon's
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all about. And I suppose my media experts are gonna say I'm foolish for
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this, but in all candor, I change my light bulbs the smae way I did in
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the 50's: my wife gets on a ladder and I turn it.
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(Jesse Jackson) Changing the light bulb is a partial solution
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at best. I'm more of a Lone Ranger than a light bulb changer. But even
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the Lone Ranger had Tonto and Silver, and the shameful fact is that the
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American Indians of today don't have enough solver, or gold, or even
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paper money to allow them to buy into the American Dream or some extra
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light bulbs. We must ensure that all Americans can light their homes,
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>from the lighthouse to the White House.
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Doctors?
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Three: One to find a bulb specialist, one to find a bulb
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installation specialist, and one to bill it all to Medicare.
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That depends on whether it has health insurance.
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One, but he has a nurse tell him which end to screw in.
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Dope addicts?
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Two: One to roll it, and one to light it up.
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Drummers?
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Only one, but he'll break ten bulbs before figuring out that they can't
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just be pushed in.
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One, but only after asking "Why?"
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Two: one to hold the bulb, and one to turn his throne (but only after
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they figure out that you have to turn the bulb).
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Drunks?
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Five: One to hold the bulb, four to watch the room spin.
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Dull people?
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One.
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Economists?
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Two: One to assume the latter (a pun) and change the bulb.
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None: If the government would just leave it alone, it would
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screw itself in.
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Editors?
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Two: One to change the bulb, and one to issue a rejection slip to the
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old bulb.
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Editors of Poor Richard's Almanac?
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Many hands make light work.
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Efficiency experts?
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None: They only replace dark bulbs.
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Two: One to change the bulb and one to issue a rejection slip to the
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old one.
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Emergency room technicians?
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One, but the bulb will have to wait 45 minutes in the waiting room.
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Ergonomicists?
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Five: Four to decide which way it ought to turn, and ...
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<etnhic> American Princesses?
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Two: One to call Daddy, and one to open the Diet Pepsi.
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<ethnic> gods?
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Two: One to hold the bulb, and one to turn the planet.
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<ethnic>s?
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None, but one is enough to screw up the joke.
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Ten: One to hold the bulb, and nine to turn the ladder.
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European ballet dancers?
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None: they like Danzig in the dark.
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Evolutionists?
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One, but it takes over eight million years.
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Existentialists?
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Two: One to screw it in and one to observe how the light bulb
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itself symbolizes a single incandescent beacon of subjective reality in
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a netherworld of endless absurdity reaching out toward a maudlin cosmos
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of nothingness.
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Fatalists?
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"What does it matter? We're all going to die anyway."
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Federal Employees?
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Sorry, that's been cut from the budget.
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Feminists?
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"That's not funny!"
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Two: One to change the bulb, and one to write about how it feels.
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Two: One to screw it in, and one to kick the balls off any man trying
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to help the first.
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Three: One to screw it in, and two to talk about the sexual
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implications.
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Three: One to change the bulb, and two to secretly wish they were the
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socket.
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Four: One to change it, and three to write about how the bulb is
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exploiting the socket.
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Field service engineers?
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Five: one to hold it, and four to pound it in.
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Firemen?
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Four: Three to cut a hole in the roof, and one to change it.
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Folk Singers?
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Two: One to change the bulb, and one to write a song about how
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good the old one was.
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Football players?
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The whole team, and they all get a semester's credit for it.
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Frat men?
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Three: One to screw it in, and two to help him down off the keg.
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Five: One to hold the bulb and four to drink until the room
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spins.
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FSE's?
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Who can tell? They are always in the dark.
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Two: One to hold the bulb, and one to pound it in.
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How long will it take?
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That's indeterminate. It depends on how many dead
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bulbs they've brought with them.
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What if there are two dead bulbs?
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They replace the fuse box.
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Fundamentalists?
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"The Bible doesn't mention light bulbs."
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Gardeners?
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One. The new light bulbs are just as easy to change as the old ones.
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Gas fitters?
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Three: One to turn it up the day before when you're out, one to change
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the switch, and one to bring along the wrong kind of bulb.
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Gay rights activists?
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None: The bulb shouldn't have to change for society to accept it.
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Gays?
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Two: One to screw it in, the other to say "Fabulous!"
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Generals?
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1,000,001: One to change the bulb, and 1 million to rebuild
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civilization to the point where they need light bulbs again.
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Gorillas?
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One, but it takes tons of light bulbs.
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Graduate students?
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I don't know, but make my stipend tax-free, give my advisor a
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$100,000 grant of the taxpayer's money, and I'm sure he can tell me
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how to do the work for him so he can take the credit for answering this
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incredibly vital question.
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One, but it may take him upward of five years to do it.
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Greek gods?
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Two: one to hold the bulb, the other to turn the planet.
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Grocery store cashiers?
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None: They won't even change a dollar.
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Gypsies?
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None, but you lose a lot of light bulbs.
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Hackers?
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"You mean it's dark in here?"
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Hardware Engineers?
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None: That's a software project.
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None: They always work in the dark.
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None: They just have marketing portray the dead bulb as a
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feature.
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None: "We'll code around it."
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None: "The diagnostics check, so it must be software."
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Harvard students?
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One: He holds the bulb, and the universe spins around him.
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Helmsley employees?
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100: 99 to try, and one to fire them all.
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Homophobics?
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None: They refuse to do it because they're terrified that the sockets
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aren't really female.
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It obviously has to be done by just one. They don't screw around with
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other men.
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Two: One to do it, and one to get the sterile rubber gloves because
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it's possible that a gay touched the bulb before him.
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None: They prefer that the bulb stay in the closet.
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IBM People?
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One, provided there's an engineer around to explain how to do it.
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100: Ten to change the bulb, and ninety to write a document
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number gc7500439-0001, Multitasking Incandescent Source System Facility
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of which 10% of the pages state only "This page intentionally left
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blank", and 20% of the definitions are of the form "A ____ consists of
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sequences of non-blank characters separated by spaces."
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Illinois basketball players?
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One, but he gets money, a car, and three credit hours for it.
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Insects?
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Only two. Well, how many do you think it should take?
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Irishmen?
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Twenty. One to hold the bulb, and nineteen to drink until the
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room spins.
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Japanese industrialists?
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Three: One to make sure that the new bulb is not foreign made, one to
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change it, and one to look into the export potential of the old bulb.
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Jewish American princesses?
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Three: Two to bitch about it, one to call the building superintendant.
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Jewish Mothers?
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None: "That's all right - I'll just sit in the dark ...."
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Jugglers?
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One, but it takes at least three bulbs.
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Junkies?
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"Oh, wow! Is it like dark, man?"
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Keyboardists?
|
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|
"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 .... "
|
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|
Two: One to screw in the bulb, and one to patch it into the Korg.
|
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|
Two: One to change the bulb and one to say "Yeah, that sounds just
|
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|
like it."
|
||
|
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|
KGB agents?
|
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Two: One to screw it in and the other to check for microphones.
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Lawyers?
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|
How many can you afford?
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|
Lead guitarists?
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Six: One to change it, five to say "I could've done it better."
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|
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|
Lead singers?
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|
One: He holds the bulb while the world revolves around him.
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|
None: Get the bass player to do it.
|
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|
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|
Lesbians?
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|
Three: One to screw it in, and two to talk about how much
|
||
|
better it was than with a man.
|
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|
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|
Liberals?
|
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|
None: They can't remove the old ones since they are already part of
|
||
|
the environment.
|
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|
One and 28 delegates representing all the social, economic and ethnic
|
||
|
communities.
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|
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|
Libertarians?
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||
|
None: They don't change them because someone might enter the room who
|
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|
wants to sit in the dark.
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|
|
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|
Light bulb joke tellers?
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||
|
100: One to change the bulb, and 99 to make stupid jokes about it.
|
||
|
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||
|
Light bulbs?
|
||
|
One if it knows its own Goedel number.
|
||
|
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||
|
Loggers?
|
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|
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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|
||
|
Slambo (not affiliated with Rambo | Why would anyone want to listen
|
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or Yambo or anyone else whose name | to a puny little undergrad CS
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ends in "...bo") | major in the first place?
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