<p>Marite: Ah, yes, the oldest and usually most trusted source of light, known in the original as Yehi Or. But the manufacturing plant can’t be visited and it might not be acceptable to non-religious folks.</p>
<p>It is not necesary that all American light sources be religiously affiliated. Illumination may be obtained from secular bulbs if you research them thoroughly and determine their “fit” in advance.</p>
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It has been said that–even when screwed in straight–what secular bulbs lack in clear illumination is more than made up for in sizzling heat.</p>
<p>Generally it is thought that “shedding more heat than light” is not a good thing. ;)</p>
<p>I did not mean to imply that it was especially good at all-music >;)<</p>
<p>And though such bulbs as these lack the virtue of economy–and the essence of the bright–they are from time to time surfeit with the hot intensity of righteous indignation…a lot of sizzle but still lacking the steak, as it were.</p>
<p>…nice for warming your hands.</p>
<p>Humans love to classify, and CCer’s maybe even more than most, but when we start determining the relilgious or secular nature of a light bulb is when I get dizzy and get off the merry-go-round! </p>
<p>So to answer the OP–it depends on whom you ask.</p>
<p>Humans classified:
Yes, and it seems, screw in light bulbs; and thus humans are now judiciously, and definitively, distinguished from Marsians–they of the light-bulb head–no amount of whom, it is presumed, could be successfully screwed into the illuminative ceiling fixture that bedevils this tenebrous thread.</p>
<p>How much would it cost to hire a consultant?</p>
<p>You know, I think the lightbulb might achieve its potential better at a women’s college or at least an oft-underrated LAC.</p>
<p>Dorothy–um, <em>Martians</em>?</p>
<p><em>tenebrous</em> is nice, tho.</p>
<p>And DadofSam & marite: Nice thing about the sun is it shines on believers & non-believers alike. But only in the daytime, which is why the various light bulbs are in demand, I presume.</p>
<p>But I do like the famous punchline “Never mind, I’ll sit in the dark.” :)</p>
<p>How many CCers does it take to change a lightbulb?</p>
<p>One college-aged CCer with a large vocabulary and complex, sophisticated writing style and many parent CCers clamouring to look up words in the dictionary and decipher the writing because we must have been…um…away from college too long. :D</p>
<p>1 more to ask whether Thomas Edison would be able to change the lightbulb if he tried today…</p>
<p>Has everyone seen these:
How many _________ students does it take to change a light bulb?</p>
<p>Harvard: One–he holds the bulb and the world revolves around him
Yale: None–New Haven looks better in the dark
Princeton: Two—one to mix the martinis and one to call the electrician
Stanford: One, dude.
MIT: Five – one to design a nuclear-powered one that never needs changing, one to figure out how to power the rest of Boston using that lightbulb, two to install it, and one to write the computer program that controls the wall switch.
Brown: Eleven—one to change the lightbulb and ten to share the experience
Vassar: Eleven–One to screw it and ten to support its sexual orientation
Oberlin: Three–One to change it and two to figure out how to get high off the old one
Sarah Lawrence: Five–One to change the bulb and four to do an interpretive dance about it
Williams: The whole student body–when you’re snowed in, there’s nothing else to do.
Mount Holyoke: One–she calls a Smithie to do it
Wesleyan: Wesleyan’s boycotting GE . . . military-industrial complex and all that
Reed: One–and she doesn’t even need a ladder because she has platform Birkenstocks
Cornell: Two, one to change the bulb and one to crack under the pressure</p>
<p>one to change the lightbulb
29435390 to psychoanalyze every facet of what will go into that person’s decision of lightbulb and criticize the lightbulb for all its fault.
and one desperate little light bulb.</p>
<p>^And we have “1 lurker to respond to the thread nine months later and bring it back up again” as was the OP’s last suggestion. It may have taken years rather than months, but I think this means the prophecy has been fulfilled and all that’s left is for 1 moderator to come along and lock the thread.</p>
<p>Well, I’ll break the prophecy and add another post.</p>
<p>Columbia: Two. One to change the light bulb and other to make sure it gets into the newspapers.</p>
<p>It’s not nine months later…it is 3 1/2 years later!! (January 2007 until today’s post)</p>
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and one to respond to a different question than the one asked :D</p>
<p>Anyone tried LED’s ? We use CFs for years+ . The only bulb left is the one that comes on when I get a bright idea. :)</p>
<p>Anyone have a source for 300 watt rough service medium base standard screw-in bulbs? Frosted, not clear. Not the mogul base. Since the governmental intervention and mandatory replacement of most incandescent bulbs with the CFC’s these are harder to get than an admit to Y, P or H.</p>
<p>I only have six new ones left in stock, and nine more in various stages of use. </p>
<p>It’s getting desperate. I NEED THESE. I really do (and it’s none of your business why).</p>
<p>Anybody?</p>