How many Hatrackers 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.
Survivor to post an essay concerning unimportance of light bulbs to short-story writing, and, on a side note the shared aspects of of superior writing and martial prowess from pre-lightbulb societies
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 all writers 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.
Three to link all posts to date, quote them in their entirety including all headers and signatures, and add "Me too".
Two to post to the group that they will no longer post because they cannot handle the light bulb controversy.
Christine and at least two others 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 writing exploits and a light bulb.
One group lurker to respond to the original post 6 months from now and start it all over again.
[This message has been edited by J (edited February 02, 2007).]
Posted by franc li (Member # 3850) on :
My lightbulb in my family room blew. I wonder how long it will take my husband to notice and ask me to change it.
Posted by Avatar300 (Member # 1655) on :
quote:One group lurker to respond to the original post 6 months from now and start it all over again.
'Kay. Can someone make a note to remind me of this thread in six months?
Posted by RMatthewWare (Member # 4831) on :
Sometimes I wonder, with all the posts here, whether anyone gets writing done (outside of this forum).
By the way, what am I not doing right now? Oh yeah.
Why do I get the essay assignment?
Posted by Elan (Member # 2442) on :
Well, THIS thread made me snort my morning coffee through my nose...
Posted by Max Masterson (Member # 4799) on :
well I agree with Matt, since I found this site I've spent more time reading posts than writing. But what I have written has been a lot better for what I've read on here so I don't mind.
As for why survivor gets to do the essay.....probably cos he's the only one who can!
Posted by RillSoji (Member # 1920) on :
So true Max! I'm waiting for Christine's opinion on light bulbs...
Posted by hoptoad (Member # 2145) on :
has anyone ever hooked up a little light-bulb to a half dozen potatoes and watched it glow?
I like potatoes.
Posted by Zoot (Member # 3176) on :
No, but I once knew a man that hooked up a large light bulb in his shed to grow a certain illegal herb.
He is now being detained at her majesty's pleasure.
Posted by Survivor (Member # 213) on :
You'd think that people would figure out that you can beat the infrared signature by...um, forget I said anything
Did J mention the part where the thread wanders completely off-topic?
Posted by Zoot (Member # 3176) on :
I still waiting for the essay. Posted by Survivor (Member # 213) on :
An essay about lightbulbs...that just seems so grade school. And last century, too.
Posted by RMatthewWare (Member # 4831) on :
I use those new halogen "ice cream cone" bulbs that aren't technically light bulbs at all.
When I type 'lightbulbs' as one word my spell check underlines it in red.
Matt
Posted by Survivor (Member # 213) on :
Posted by Zoot (Member # 3176) on :
Do you think light bulbs are going the way of the dinosaur? Discuss...
Posted by kmckendry (Member # 4936) on :
If it's a 3-Way lightbulb, just use the other settings until I can get to it. I know no one else can change a lightbulb in this house. I also know that there are 55 other lightbulbs that are working, use one of them. Scratch that, only 54, there's one in the basement that no one else can replace either.
Besides, I don't need the lightbulb, I'm listening to the book instead of reading it.
BTW, where IS that essay.
Posted by Rommel Fenrir Wolf II (Member # 4199) on :
I think one would have too much time on ones hands to think of something like that. But quite funny. Rommel Wolf II
Posted by RMatthewWare (Member # 4831) on :
Are light bulbs going the way of the dinosaur? It depends on your definition of the term "light bulb". If you mean the bulbs invented by Edison using an electric current that passes through a thin filament, which heats it and causes it to become excited releasing thermally equiliberated photons in the process, then, yes, I do.
If you mean any glass or translucent bulb type device that emits light, then, no.
Matt
Posted by Robert Nowall (Member # 2764) on :
Y'know, I've seen these Edison lightbulbs, some of them dating back to Edison, that are still working. If you want to throw out perfectly acceptable technology in favor of something untried and untested, you might as well work for the post office.
Posted by Survivor (Member # 213) on :
You remember that scene in National Treasure where Nicholas Cage finds a torch that's been there for over two-hundred years and he totally lights it on fire despite the fact that they have flashlights?
I mean, once you get past the, "Hey, a valuable artifact, let's light it on fire" aspect of that, it really does make a lot of sense...
Posted by Zero (Member # 3619) on :
Well in his defense his co-star was more than moderately attractive and he was probably distracted. Take it up with the Masons. Since they're clearly still strong and influencial...
Posted by hoptoad (Member # 2145) on :
perhaps it was symbolic of the 'flames' of an 'arcane' passion
or perhaps hte director wanted it to look a bit more like tomb-raider
Posted by Rommel Fenrir Wolf II (Member # 4199) on :
Or who would care about a simple torch form 200 years ago when you find the Treasure that is worth more than the torch or flash light. Torches were made to be burned not collected or studied. At least that is what I think anyway. Rommel Fenrir Wolf II
Posted by RMatthewWare (Member # 4831) on :
Do we care more about the historical significance of the light bulb or the actual use we get from it? Has history been changed significantly because we have a light bulb? Can the current Iran/Iraq crises be blamed on light bulbs or the lack thereof?
Matt
Posted by Chaldea (Member # 4707) on :
Of course if you're British, you don't burn a torch--you'd get an awful smelling plastic puddle and battery acid on your feet. You'd simply switch it on just like our American flashlight counterpart. Posted by J (Member # 2197) on :
RMatt, whether we can blame the Iraq/Iran situation on light bulb failure depends on whether you are talking about physical ones in the world, or symbolic ones inside certain individuals' heads.
Posted by dreadlord (Member # 2913) on :
Hey, you know something? the guys right!
anyway, I think Ill work on the essay instead of Survivor for once.
now, about the funny story... GOTCHA! I dont have one!
Posted by RMatthewWare (Member # 4831) on :
So, which current presidential candidate would do the most work to improving the light bulb? I think it could be the overriding issue in this campaign.
Matt
Posted by dreadlord (Member # 2913) on :
maybe Hillary... (scowls at the thought that she might actually win) honestly, though, my sister would be a better candidate, and Shes 7.
Posted by Survivor (Member # 213) on :
She's precocious with respect to light bulbs, eh?
Why are there never any bald presidential candidates?
Or am I stereotyping baldness by making that connection?
Posted by Rommel Fenrir Wolf II (Member # 4199) on :
The light bulb lead to the invention of the vacuum tube which early radios used along with early computers so yes the light bulb did help along our technological advancements. As for the Iraq\Iran thing WHAT LIBRAL MINDED PERSON THOUGHT OF THAT I apologize but it is quite idiotic Rommel Fenrir Wolf II
Posted by J (Member # 2197) on :
Rommel, have you seen Talladega Nights? There is a scene where Will Ferrell insults his boss, preceded by "With all due respect . . ." Then they have an argument about whether saying "with all due respect" entitled him to say whatever he wanted afterwards, no matter how insulting.
Your last post is kind of like that. Preceding the insult "it is idiotic" with "I apologize" still doesn't entitle you to call anyone, or their perfectly valid political opinion, idiotic.
We play nice on this board. You want to rumble on political issues, and not play nice, then let's take it outside (meaning shoot me an email).
Posted by franc li (Member # 3850) on :
quote:No, but I once knew a man that hooked up a large light bulb in his shed to grow a certain illegal herb.
But I bought a grow light specifically because my basement is poorly lit and I exercise down there.
I also found a scrap of paper while I was de-junking yesterday that explained that Melatonin is actually a reduction of Seratonin. Well, I don't know if reduction is the right term. The enzymes take stuff off the Seratonin to make Melatonin.
Posted by Rommel Fenrir Wolf II (Member # 4199) on :
I have never heard of Talladega Nights. I some times let my work and political views get in the way of my thinking. I admit I was wrong and I apologize. Rommel Fenrir Wolf II
Posted by RMatthewWare (Member # 4831) on :
I'm actually quite conservative. And I think the whole point of this discussion was meant as a joke. A joke that I'm happy to perpetuate.
Matt
Posted by rstegman (Member # 3233) on :
I heard a few days ago that Edison is now a parriah.
His light is inefficiant. It puts out so much energy in unusable wavelengths for the little light it provides.
His light bulb is destroying the world because of the pollution required to energize all of them.
They forget what his light replaced.....
Posted by RMatthewWare (Member # 4831) on :
You misspelled pariah. Besides that, I use the ice cream bulbs. They're supposedly energy effecient and take years to burn out.
Matt
Posted by Tara (Member # 4638) on :
quote:has anyone ever hooked up a little light-bulb to a half dozen potatoes and watched it glow? I like potatoes.
You forgot the one Hatracker to post ways to blow up one's basement with a light bulb.
Posted by Rommel Fenrir Wolf II (Member # 4199) on :
Light bulb bombs are the best of the practical jokes ever thought of. Even if your target gets glass in the face.
Posted by Rommel Fenrir Wolf II (Member # 4199) on :
I just recalled a show I saw once on the history channel I think it was the 8 DEGREES OF Frances Bacon on hoe the woolly mammoth led to the invention of the Hubble Space Telescope and some where it talked about how the light bulb came from the wooly mammoth then to the first computer. It is one of those late night fill in shows thing. I think one would have to be stoned out of ones mind to think of such a thing but it did make a little since.
Posted by RMatthewWare (Member # 4831) on :
So, I went to Sam's Club and bought a 10-pack of the new fluorescent light bulbs. They take a couple seconds to turn on, but I like the light quality and the fact that I'm saving energy. You can find Sam's Club by going here: http://www.samsclub.com
It was fun going through the house and changing the light bulbs. Regrettably, I have more than ten light bulbs in use (I have a couple multi-light ceiling fans) and will need to return to Sam's Club.
I used my right hand to replace the bulbs, but I suppose I could have used my left, that arm is just as long.
You have to be careful, though. Bulbs get hot when left on. I've used a sock before to insulate my hand.
I've not actually worked in any lighting industry, but every industry I've worked in has in fact used light bulbs.
I would like to take this time to say "ditto" to everything that has been said, though I will not copy all posts to do so.
All other queries should be referenced to www.google.com
I have no funny stories about light bulbs. None that are true anyway. Well, maybe one.
I think we'll have to wait six months to see if a lurker responds to the original post.
So, J, I think we covered most of it in this thread.
Matt
Posted by Chaldea (Member # 4707) on :
Rommel that's the funniest thing I've read all night; that the woolly mammoth led to the invention of Hubble via the light bulb. Ooooh, yeah. That sounds like a poem about pumice and neurosurgery. Only a Hatracker would dig that up. I'm LOLing all over my keyboard. Thanks.
Posted by Rommel Fenrir Wolf II (Member # 4199) on :
The light in the shower in our barracks went out a few days ago. Now everyone showers in the dark. Not to fun. I wonder how long it will take to get the work crew to change it? Rommel Fenrir Wolf II
Posted by starsin (Member # 4081) on :
quote:One group lurker to respond to the original post 6 months from now and start it all over again
hehehe...lurker attack!!
couldn't resist, sorry
- starsin
Posted by InarticulateBabbler (Member # 4849) on :
Rommel, the first time someone feels an invasive procedure in the shower, that light bulb will be changed fast enough.
Posted by Kathleen Dalton Woodbury (Member # 59) on :
Ahem!
Posted by Rommel Fenrir Wolf II (Member # 4199) on :
Well it wont matter after today for we are leaving. But whoever gets the barracks after us will suffer. Rommel Fenrir Wolf II
Posted by InarticulateBabbler (Member # 4849) on :
I just had to be the group lurker.
Posted by Rommel Fenrir Wolf II (Member # 4199) on :
dose anyone have any idea how much a pain in the A$$ it is to change a head light in a uparmered humvee? it is not easy. ROMMEL FENRIR WOLF II
Posted by Rommel Fenrir Wolf II (Member # 4199) on :
making a trining aid pressure plate detentor with a light buld to show if it works is not easy
Posted by apeiron (Member # 2565) on :
Neither is knowing what that is...
It's a gorgeous day outside and I'm sitting in my room with two warm lightbulbs on, hunched over my computer. Depressing...
Posted by Rommel Fenrir Wolf II (Member # 4199) on :
No i call that OD after your firend dies in an accedent
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Posted by Rommel Fenrir Wolf II (Member # 4199) on :
lets take the head lights off our veichols. replace them with BLACK OUT LIGHTS and try driving in the night by holding our NVG'S to our face with one hand and drive with the other. not to menchen most of our routs are covered in bolders and 100' drop offs. BRILLIANT. Rommel Fenrir Wolf II
Posted by Robert Nowall (Member # 2764) on :
How long does it take to figure out how many Hatrackers it takes to change a light bulb?
Posted by HuntGod (Member # 2259) on :
I didn't notice the date at first and thought Survivor was back...bad Rommel!
By the way don't ever pretend an industrial flourescent light is a light sabre and swing it around vigorously...stress fracture, nuf' said.
Posted by Rommel Fenrir Wolf II (Member # 4199) on :
sorry toget your hopes up. now put away the rolled up newspaper. i wouldnot want to hurt any one... iwonder how long it will take the hajji who clens theshowers to replace the dieing light bulb. Rommel Fenrir Wolf II
Posted by rstegman (Member # 3233) on :
How many Surrealists does it take to change a light bulb?
Five
Two to hold the giraffe and three to fill the bathtub with brightly colored tools.
Posted by Rommel Fenrir Wolf II (Member # 4199) on :
How many Army Combat Engineers dose it take to change a light bulb? 1 to notice it needs changed. 2 to find the replacement. 4 to prep the demo to blast the old light bulb out of the socket. 2 to do a post blast analyst. 5 to re wire the socket. 4 to find the 2 that went to find a replacement. 1 to screw it back in. Rommel Fenrir Wolf II
Posted by Rommel Fenrir Wolf II (Member # 4199) on :
Funniest thing that has happened in a long time to us.
On a mission lasting several days we were sleeping in barracks assigned for this mission. 2 nights ago there was 155mm outgoing artillery. well the barracks are right next to the 155mm guns so the vibrations made a light fixture fall on someone as they slept. This happened at 2230Z. we kind of rolled over and went back to sleep only to laugh about it the next day. Not exactly a light bulb but close
Rommel Fenrir Wolf II
Posted by skadder (Member # 6757) on :
Do you get a purple heart for that kind of injury?
Posted by snapper (Member # 7299) on :
I tried to submit a new lightbulb but it was rejected because of the wattage. I've been in bed sulking about it ever since.
Posted by rickfisher (Member # 1214) on :
Rommel, you're slipping . . . you forgot to degrade your spelling again.
Posted by debhoag (Member # 5493) on :
how many publishers does it take to change a light bulb? Three - one to do the . . . ehem . . . changing, and two to hold the author down.
I heard that at a writer's conference in November, and have been waiting for a moment that would be appropriate to trot it back out ever since. Of course, some might question its appropriateness at any time.
Posted by Robert Nowall (Member # 2764) on :
Dear God, this thread is going again...
Posted by Rommel Fenrir Wolf II (Member # 4199) on :
well i had my lap top on the drop lines in the mwr on the fob we are staying. so i used ms word 03
no there was no ingory to the person no perple heart. did ask doc though.
and yes it is going again.
RFW2nd
Posted by JeanneT (Member # 5709) on :
Where is Kathleen to tell us to stop arguing about light bulbs? Posted by InarticulateBabbler (Member # 4849) on :
quote: how many publishers does it take to change a light bulb? Three - one to do the . . . ehem . . . changing, and two to hold the author down.
That reminds me of another joke: How many flies does it take to screw in a light bulb?
Posted by Wolfe_boy (Member # 5456) on :
Just two, IB. More than that is strictly optional.
Jayson Merryfield
Posted by InarticulateBabbler (Member # 4849) on :
Yeah, just two--but I don't know how they got in there...
Posted by Kathleen Dalton Woodbury (Member # 59) on :
quote:Where is Kathleen to tell us to stop arguing about light bulbs?
You rang?
Somehow it didn't sound like arguing to me.
Have to confess, though, I've been battling tendonitis in my left wrist since about Christmas time (when I was in Egypt on a tour).
Finally got a cortizone shot today, right smack in the middle off my dorsal tendon (the one that runs up into the thumb), and I have to wear a thumb-imobilizing wrist brace for two months in hopes that the cortizone will take care of the pain.
Did you know that a thumb-immobilizing wrist brace, even on your left hand when you're right handed, can make it a bit of a challenge to type?
RWFII, you may not be the only one with creatively spelled posts around here for the next while.
Posted by Kathleen Dalton Woodbury (Member # 59) on :
One more thing: the topic is how many it takes to CHANGE a light bulb. Puns on any other word choice would not be appreciated.
Does Kathleen get grumpy after a cortizone shot? Hmmm.....
Posted by Robert Nowall (Member # 2764) on :
Other than the tendonitis, how was Egypt, Kathleen?
Posted by Kathleen Dalton Woodbury (Member # 59) on :
Well, it doesn't have anything to do with changing light bulbs, so maybe I should start that topic I asked arriki for on travel experiences being good for writing, or resurrect the one that was here a while ago.
Better that than encouraging this topic to continue, eh?
Posted by rstegman (Member # 3233) on :
I think these light bulb jokes are a waste of time on a board about writing.
I mean telling stupid jokes like, "how many presidential candidates does it take to change a broken light bulb" Three. One to remove the old bulb, and two to find a bulb that gives off broken light."
I mean, these jokes are just stupid!!!!!
Anybody who locates an old light bulb joke and brings it to the front should be shot. (I will take ten CCs.......)
Posted by Robert Nowall (Member # 2764) on :
...almost three months between posts...I suppose, even when you drive the stake into the vampire's heart, somebody'll come along and take it out...thus it is with this thread...
Posted by Rommel Fenrir Wolf II (Member # 4199) on :
Wow rstegman you are beginning to sound like me.
I never thought you would consider a thing like that.
RFW2nd
Posted by Wolfe_boy (Member # 5456) on :
I'm wondering what the problem is as well, rstegman, since a mere 17 posts above your last post, there resides an actual How many people does it take to screw in a light bulb joke, penned by yourself, which is neither better nor worse than anything else offered here.
Posted by rstegman:
quote:How many Surrealists does it take to change a light bulb?
Five
Two to hold the giraffe and three to fill the bathtub with brightly colored tools.
I've heard of the pot calling the kettle black, but the pot naming itself so?
Jayson Merryfield
Posted by Elan (Member # 2442) on :
This quote probably doesn't belong here, but it doesn't belong anywhere else, either, so I thought I'd just toss it into the ring with the nonsensical lightbulb jokes:
"You have to be a great thinker to be a great writer. Which is bad news if you are a writer." -- Andy Rooney, on Sixty Minutes
Posted by J (Member # 2197) on :
Nice quotation.
May I note that this has been the most enduring thread I've ever seen in my years on this site? I'm not sure what that says about us as writers, but it confirms the kernel of truth in the original joke, and for that reason, validates the entire, rambling discussion thereon.
Now we need someone to post saying that Wikipedia isn't a reliable research source.
Posted by tnwilz (Member # 4080) on :
Q.How many men does it take to install a fresh roll of toilet paper.
A. Nobody's really sure - it's never happened.
Posted by Rommel Fenrir Wolf II (Member # 4199) on :
The lights in our barracks light up automatically when someone walks down the hall. Pretty cool.
RFW2nd
Posted by Robert Nowall (Member # 2764) on :
A while ago, where I work, they installed self-flushing toilets. Us long-term senior employees figured that management didn't think some of the new hires knew how to use the regular kind. (That and "rakeoff" and "kickback" were what most came up in conversation.)
Posted by Rommel Fenrir Wolf II (Member # 4199) on :
The last miracle of god the self flushing toilet.
Posted by Robert Nowall (Member # 2764) on :
For the record, they don't work right...either they flush when you don't want 'em to, or they don't flush when you do want 'em to...
Posted by Wolfe_boy (Member # 5456) on :
quote:For the record, they don't work right...either they flush when you don't want 'em to, or they don't flush when you do want 'em to...
Of course, you end up looking like some kind of wicked-awesome brown mage with all the arcane hand gestures you end up making in front of the motion sensor trying to get your fewmets to flush down the drain.
Jayson Merryfield
Posted by JeanneT (Member # 5709) on :
Or like a three year old waving bye bye to her body products. I'm always glad for stall doors at that moment.
Posted by Rommel Fenrir Wolf II (Member # 4199) on :
i am having probloms with the lights in my house, i have replaces the light bulbs 3 times in one week and they keep going burning out. damn these long last 7 year life energy saving bulbs they are causing me to sit at home in the dark at night.
and quote----How long does it take to figure out how many Hatrackers it takes to change a light bulb? end quote----
for ever.
hahahahaha RFW2nd
Posted by Pyre Dynasty (Member # 1947) on :
Sounds like your fixture is the trouble.
Posted by snapper (Member # 7299) on :
Hey the light bulb thread is back! Here's a new one I just thought up.
How many fiction editors does it take to change a light bulb?
They never change them because they aren't aware their brightest bulbs are burned out.
Posted by Robert Nowall (Member # 2764) on :
I use one of those "energy efficient" swirly lightbulbs, and that in a fixture that's difficult to change. Even then, it doesn't last seven years, only a year or two at most.
Whatever you do, don't break one; the cleanup of the toxic chemicals will set you back a couple of thousand dollars.
Posted by MrsBrown (Member # 5195) on :
drake the thrall is the lurker, as you can see at:
(I vote for moving this thread to Grist for the Mill)
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Posted by Robert Nowall (Member # 2764) on :
For a moment I thought this was back on...
Posted by rstegman (Member # 3233) on :
How many congressmen does it take to change a light bulb?
all of them but it has to be the swirly kinds....
Posted by tnwilz (Member # 4080) on :
How many men does it take to change a roll of toilet paper? No one is really sure, it's never happened.
Sigh,... Doesn't really matter how many times I post this joke, no one's ever gonna think its funny are they. I know some jokes about poultry pedestrians too. I'm going to take a nap now.
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Posted by aspirit (Member # 7974) on :
I second the vote to move this thread to Grist for the Mill.
quote:Q. How many writers does it take to change a light bulb? A. But why do we have to CHANGE it?
Posted by Kathleen Dalton Woodbury (Member # 59) on :
I didn't notice that there was a vote, but it makes sense to me.
Hold on, to something other than a light bulb, cause here we go!
Posted by Kathleen Dalton Woodbury (Member # 59) on :
There.
Did we lose anyone in transit?
Posted by snapper (Member # 7299) on :
quote:Did we lose anyone in transit?
Lets do a quick head count
Talespinners gone, Teirgan is missing, BentTree is uprooted, Patrick James flew the coup, no ones seen Steffenwolf... Jean T, Kathyton, Reagansgame...
Geez, what have you done Kathleen! It looks like a ghost town!
Posted by philocinemas (Member # 8108) on :
I tried a couple of those swirly light bulbs with a motion sensitive switch - they blew both times - I felt like I had just wasted the next 14 years of my life.
Posted by Pyre Dynasty (Member # 1947) on :
Yeah those motion sensors do not like the CFL's, which is funny to me since they are both touted as energy savers.
I want to know . . . is it dark?
Posted by aspirit (Member # 7974) on :
Most CFLs (ice cream or swirly bulbs) cannot handle specialty lighting. You must buy a specialty bulb. It's the same if you want a CFL that doesn't need to warm up.
Also, a fact that's not well advertised is that CFLs are more efficient only in areas that you need light for at least fifteen minutes at a time. CFLs use more power than incandescents (the older-type bulbs) when they are turned on and off frequently. For this reason, we use both CFLs and incandescents in our house.
Posted by Robert Nowall (Member # 2764) on :
They tell me you can't switch the swirlybulbs on and off too often...makes 'em go funny...actually, mine usually last a year and a fraction...I only use the one in a socket that's too difficult to change every couple of months with a regular bulb.
But once they're blown out...how do you get rid of 'em?
Posted by ScardeyDog (Member # 8707) on :
Home Depot (and possibly some other similar stores) accept them back for recycling. CFL's contain a small amount of mercury, so they don't want you to put them in the regular trash.
Posted by Natej11 (Member # 8547) on :
I always seem to end up in a room with those glass cover fixtures that kill light bulbs in like a month.
So I know it takes at least one Hatracker to change a light bulb .
Posted by philocinemas (Member # 8108) on :
I wonder how much extra carbon monoxide is produced by transporting swirly bulbs back and forth to stores and recycling centers.
Posted by InarticulateBabbler (Member # 4849) on :
Wow. J had it right: this thread keeps coming back like Valtrex's arch enemy.
i wouldnot want to hurt any one...
.