JodyTheBad's Pirate Ship!

I had to steal this from a forum I'm on. . . but that's ok because the guy that posted there stole it from a forum he reads.

How many forum users does it take to change a light bulb?

One to change the light bulb and to post that the light bulb has been changed.

Fourteen to share similar experiences of changing light bulbs and how the light bulb could have been changed differently.

Seven to caution about the dangers of changing light bulbs.

Seven more to point out spelling/grammar errors in posts about changing light bulbs.

Five to flame the spell checkers.

Three to correct spelling/grammar flames.

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

Another six to condemn those six as stupid.

Fifteen to claim experience in the lighting industry and give the correct spelling.

Nineteen to post that this group is not about light bulbs and to please take this discussion to a lightbulb (or light bulb) forum.

Eleven to defend the posting to the group saying that we all use light bulbs and therefore the posts are relevant to this group.

Thirty six 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.

Seven to post URLs where one can see examples of different light bulbs.

Four to post that the URLs were posted incorrectly and then post the corrected URL.

Three to post about links they found from the URLs that are relevant to this group which makes light bulbs relevant to this group.

Thirteen to link all posts to date, quote them in their entirety including all headers and signatures, and add "Me too".

Five to post to the group that they will no longer post because they cannot handle the light bulb controversy.

Four to say "didn't we go through this already a short time ago?"

Thirteen to say "do a Google search on light bulbs before posting questions about light bulbs"

Three to tell a funny story about their chickens and a light bulb.

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

I just can't get over the change in my web surfing speed with these option tweaks in Firefox. . . .

If you use Firefox (and you should!) and you have DSL or faster speeds, give these changes a shot. Then load up CNN or your favorite complex busy page and see how much faster it is.

You're welcome!! ;)

. . . . but if you are going to mug someone, I think it's smart to target people that aren't so likely to kill you. And so I find it really strange that a man who mugged some elderly women is being charged with a hate crime.

But on the third hand, perhaps we should arrange for legislation that applies stiff penalties if you mug anyone that isn't holding a loaded gun.

(I have no substantial yea or nay opinion about hate crime laws or gun control, I just think that including the elderly in hate crimes is interesting)

For a while I had nothing fun to talk about, but I can bring up a few things today. . .

First, what century are we in again?? I must be naive, I would never have thought that any place in America would have this situation today.

Second, I would love to hear people's opinions about Rudy Giuliani for president. I am an independent. Socially liberal and fiscally conservative. My grief with politics is that it's too politicy and not enough problem-solvey. Giuliani seems like a problem solver to me. Someone tell me why I shouldn't like him.

One good reason might be if he's got his head in the sand in regards to global warming - I should check that out. Enough experts agree about the world being round that I feel we should move forward based on the assumption that the world is round. I naturally have some concerns about our loss of coastline and the weather being messed up, but I am mostly concerned that our refusal to treat this as a problem now will result in 100 million people in India and China being displaced or worse. They can't exactly up and move that easily.

I realize that this is a very very difficult nut to crack, but from a risk exposure point of view, if it is a real problem and if we are the biggest contributor to it, we have a responsibility to either control our contribution or be prepared to shovel aid to those that we've affected. And it will be a lot of aid. I'd rather avoid causing the problem if possible.

My biggest concerns right now are our troubles in the Middle East (although I have nooooo opinions on what should happen there - it is just far too complex!) and global warming. I hope we get someone in office that takes a good logical look at things, gets advice from the right people, and can inspire the country to follow through. I think the big G may be the guy.