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Found this. posted by 'SPIPER' over at Firehouse.com's forums. It fits this forum all too well! 
Anyways, here it is:
How many Forum Posters does it take to change a lightbulb?
1 to change the light bulb and to post that the lightbulb has been changed
14 to share similar experiences of changing lightbulbs and how the light
bulb could have been changed differently
7 to caution about the dangers of changing lightbulbs
27 to point out spelling/grammar errors in posts about changing lightbulbs
53 to flame the spell checkers
41 to correct spelling/grammar flames (on the bold ones, maybe double those numbers for this forum )
6 to argue over whether it's "lightbulb" or "light bulb" ...
Another 6 to condemn those 6 as anal-retentive
2 industry professionals to inform the group that the proper term is "lamp"
15 know-it-alls who claim *they* were in the industry, and that "lightbulb"
is perfectly correct
156 to email the participant's ISPs complaining that they are in violation
of their "acceptable use policy" (Accept on this forum they just post who is doing it wrong)
109 to post that this group is not about light bulbs and to please take this
discussion to a lightbulb group
203 to demand that cross posting to hardware forum, off-topic forum, and
lightbulb group about changing lightbulbs be stopped
111 to defend the posting to this group saying that we all use lightbulbs
and therefore the posts *are* relevant to this group
306 to debate which method of changing lightbulbs is superior, where to buy
the best lightbulbs, what brand of light bulbs work best for this technique
and what brands are faulty
27 to post URL's where one can see examples of different lightbulbs
14 to post that the URL's were posted incorrectly and then post the
corrected URL's
3 to post about links they found from the URL's that are relevant to this
group which makes lightbulbs relevant to this group
33 to link all posts to date, quote them in their entirety including all
headers and signatures, and add "Me too"
12 to post to the group that they will no longer post because they cannot
handle the lightbulb controversy
19 to quote the "Me too's" to say "Me three"
4 to suggest that posters request the lightbulb 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 lightbulbs before posting questions about
lightbulbs" (sounds about right to me, maybe more)
and.......1 forum lurker to respond to the original post 6 months from now and .
start it all over again.
Any thoughts? Additions? Flaming about how this has already been posted and to use the search button?? Flaming about how this should be moved to the Comedy Corner? lol Hilarious but off topic comments??
Anyways, here it is:
How many Forum Posters does it take to change a lightbulb?
1 to change the light bulb and to post that the lightbulb has been changed
14 to share similar experiences of changing lightbulbs and how the light
bulb could have been changed differently
7 to caution about the dangers of changing lightbulbs
27 to point out spelling/grammar errors in posts about changing lightbulbs
53 to flame the spell checkers
41 to correct spelling/grammar flames (on the bold ones, maybe double those numbers for this forum
)6 to argue over whether it's "lightbulb" or "light bulb" ...
Another 6 to condemn those 6 as anal-retentive
2 industry professionals to inform the group that the proper term is "lamp"
15 know-it-alls who claim *they* were in the industry, and that "lightbulb"
is perfectly correct
156 to email the participant's ISPs complaining that they are in violation
of their "acceptable use policy" (Accept on this forum they just post who is doing it wrong)
109 to post that this group is not about light bulbs and to please take this
discussion to a lightbulb group
203 to demand that cross posting to hardware forum, off-topic forum, and
lightbulb group about changing lightbulbs be stopped
111 to defend the posting to this group saying that we all use lightbulbs
and therefore the posts *are* relevant to this group
306 to debate which method of changing lightbulbs is superior, where to buy
the best lightbulbs, what brand of light bulbs work best for this technique
and what brands are faulty
27 to post URL's where one can see examples of different lightbulbs
14 to post that the URL's were posted incorrectly and then post the
corrected URL's
3 to post about links they found from the URL's that are relevant to this
group which makes lightbulbs relevant to this group
33 to link all posts to date, quote them in their entirety including all
headers and signatures, and add "Me too"
12 to post to the group that they will no longer post because they cannot
handle the lightbulb controversy
19 to quote the "Me too's" to say "Me three"
4 to suggest that posters request the lightbulb 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 lightbulbs before posting questions about
lightbulbs" (sounds about right to me, maybe more)
and.......1 forum lurker to respond to the original post 6 months from now and .
start it all over again.
Any thoughts? Additions? Flaming about how this has already been posted and to use the search button?? Flaming about how this should be moved to the Comedy Corner? lol Hilarious but off topic comments??
My bad. I searched for "light bulb" and got like 5 pages but none of those showed up on the first two. 
