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Q: How many junkies does it take to screw in a light bulb?
A: Oh wow, is it
like dark, man?
Q: How many consultants does it take to change a light
bulb?
A: I'll have an estimate for you a week from Monday.
Q:
How many U.S marines does it take to screw in a light bulb ?
A: 50. One
to screw in the light bulb and the remaining 49 to guard him .
Q: "How
many Romulans does it take to screw in a light bulb?"
A: "151, one to screw
the light-bulb in, and 150 to self-destruct the ship out of disgrace."
Q:
How many editors of Poor Richard's Almanac does it take to replace a
light bulb?
A: Many hands make light work.
Q: How many Vulcans
does it take to change a light bulb?
A: "Approximately 1.00000000000000000000000"
Q:
How many members of the U.S.S. Enterprise does it take to
change a light bulb?
A: 7. Scotty will report to Captain Kirk that the light
bulb in the Engineering Section is burnt out, to which Kirk will send Bones
to pronounce the bulb dead. Scotty, after checking around, 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 3 security officers are
promptly killed by the natives, and the rest of the landing party is captured.
Meanwhile, 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.
Q: How many
efficiency experts does it take to replace a light bulb?
A: None. Efficiency
experts replace only dark bulbs.
Q: How many Pygmies does it
take to screw in a light bulb?
A: At least three. (Notes: think height!)
Q:
How many actors does it take to change a light bulb?
A: Only
one. They don't like to share the spotlight.
Q: How many big black monoliths
does it take to change a light bulb?
A: Sorry, light bulbs are an
evolutionary dead end.
Q: How many light bulbs does it take to change
a light bulb?
A: One, if it knows its own Goedel number.
Q:
How many dadaists does it take to screw in a light bulb?
A: To get to the
other side.
Q: How many mathematicians does it take to screw in a light
bulb?
A: None. It's left to the reader as an exercise.
Q: How
many consultants does it take to change a light bulb?
A: We don't know.
They never get past the feasibility study.
Q: How many Ukrainians does
it take to screw in a light bulb?
A: They don't need to, they glow in
the dark.
Q: How many poets does it take to change a light bulb?
A:
Three. One to curse the darkness, one to light a candle, and one to change
the bulb.
Q: How many stock brokers does it take to change a light
bulb?
A: Two. One to take out the bulb and drop it, and the other to try and
sell it before it crashes (knowing that it's already burned out).
Q:
How many aides does it take to change President Reagan's light bulb?
A:
None, they like to keep him in the dark.
Q: How many magicians does
it take to change a light bulb?
A: Depends on what you want to change it
into.
Q: How many missionaries does it take to change a light bulb?
A:
101. One to change it and 100 to convince everyone else to change light
bulbs too.
Q: How many Macintosh users does it take to change a light
bulb?
A: None. You have to replace the whole motherboard.
Q:
How many Californians does it take to change a light bulb?
A: Six. One to
turn the bulb, one for support, and four to relate to the experience.
Q:
How many Oregonians does it take to screw in a light bulb?
A: Five.
One to change the bulb and four more to chase off the Californians who have come
up to relate to the experience.
A: Nine. One to change the bulb, and eight
to protest the nuclear power plant that generates the electricity that powers
it.
Q: How many New Yorkers does it take to screw in a light bulb?
A:
None 'o yo' business!
A: 50. 50? Yeah 50; its in the contract.
Q:
How many WASPs does it take to change a light bulb?
A: Two. One
to call the electrician and one to mix the martinis.
Q: How many
Psychiatrists does it take to change a light bulb?
A: Only one, but the bulb
has got to really WANT to change.
A: None; the bulb will change itself
when it is ready.
Q: How many software people does it take to screw
in a light bulb?
A: None. Thats a hardware problem.
A: One, but if he
changes it, the whole building will probably fall down.
A: Two. One always
leaves in the middle of the project.
Q: How many hardware folks does
it take to change a light bulb?
A: None. That's a software problem.
A:
None. They just have marketing portray the dead bulb as a feature.
Q:
How many FSE's does it take to replace a dead light bulb?
A: Who can
tell. FSE's are always in the dark.
A: 2. One to hold the bulb and one to
pound it in (etc)
Q: How many Unix computer hacks does it take to
change a light bulb?
A: As many as you want; they're all virtual, anyway.
Q:
How many Bell Labs Vice Presidents does it take to change a light
bulb?
A: That's proprietary information. Answer available from AT&T on payment
of license fee (binary only).
A: Nearly unanswerable, since the one
who tries to change it usually drops it, and the others call for a planning session.
A:
Three. One to get the bulb and two to get the phone number of one
of their subordinates to actually change it.
Q: How many graduate students
does it take to screw in a light bulb?
A: Only one, but it may take
upwards of five years for him to get it done.
Q: How many 'Real Men'
does it take to change a light bulb?
A: None: 'Real Men' aren't afraid
of the dark.
A: None of your d*** business!
Q: How many 'Real Women'
does it take to change a light bulb?
A: None: A 'Real Woman' would have
plenty of real men around to do it.
Q: How many mice does it take
to screw in a light bulb?
A: Only two, but the hard part is getting them
into the light bulb.
Q: How many Polacks does it take to change a light
bulb?
A: Just one, but you need 6000 Russian troops in case he goes on
strike!
Q: How many Marxists does it take to screw in a light bulb?
A:
None: The light bulb contains the seeds of its own revolution.
Q:
How many (Generals/Politicians) does it take to change a light bulb?
A:
1,000,001: One to change the bulb and 1,000,000 to rebuild civilization to
the point where they need light bulbs again.
Q: How many survivors
of a nuclear war does it take to screw in a light bulb?
A: None, because
people who glow in the dark don't need light bulbs.
Q: How many Zen
masters does it take to screw in a light bulb?
A: A tree in a golden forest.
A:
Two: one to change the bulb and one not to change it.
A: One to
change and one not to change is fake Zen. The true Zen answer is Four. One to
change the bulb.
A: None. Zen masters carry their own light.
Q:
How many Carl Sagans does it take to screw in a light bulb?
A: Billions and
billions.
Q: How many folk singers does it take to screw in a light
bulb?
A: Two. One to change the bulb, and one to write a song about how
good the old light bulb was.
Q: How many surrealists does it take to
change a light bulb?
A: Two, one to hold the giraffe, and the other to fill
the bathtub with brightly colored machine tools.
Q: How many gorillas
does it take to screw in a light bulb?
A: Only one, but it sure takes
a heck of a lot of light bulbs!
Q: How many doctors does it take to
screw in a light bulb?
A: Three. One to find a bulb specialist, one to find
a bulb installation specialist, and one to bill it all to Medicare.
Q:
How many [IBM] Technical Writers does it take to change a light bulb?
A:
100. Ten to do it, and 90 to write document number GC7500439-0001, Multitasking
Incandescent Source System Facility, of which 10% of the pages state only
"This page intentionally left blank", and 20% of the definitions are of the form
"A:...... consists of sequences of non-blank characters separated by blanks".
A:
Just one, provided there's an engineer around to explain how to do it.
Q:
How many Bratzlaver Chassidim does it take to change a light bulb?
A:
None. They will never find one that burned as brightly as the first
one.
Q: How many professors does it take to change a light bulb?
A:
Only one, but they get three tech. reports out of it.
Q: How
many people from New Jersey does it take to change a light bulb?
A: Three.
One to change the light bulb, one to be a witness, and the third to shoot the
witness.
Q: How many sorority sisters does it take to change a light
bulb?
A: 51. One to change the bulb, and fifty to sing about the bulb being
changed.
Q: How many frat guys does it take to screw in a light bulb?
A:
Three: One to screw it in, and the other two to help him down off
the keg.
A: Five: One to hold the bulb, and four to guzzle beer until the
room spins.
Q: How many Harvard students does it take to screw in a
light bulb?
A: Just one. He grabs the bulb and waits for the world to revolve
around him.
Q: How many bureaucrats does it take to screw in a light
bulb?
A: Two. One to assure the everything possible is being done while
the other screws the bulb into the water faucet.
Q: How many board
meetings does it take to get a light bulb changed?
A: This topic was resumed
from last week's discussion, but is incomplete pending resolution of some
action items. It will be continued next week. Meanwhile...
Q: How many
brewers does it take to change a light bulb?
A: About one third less than
for a regular bulb.
Q: How many WASP Princesses does it take to screw
in a light bulb?
A: Two. One to get a Tab and one to call Daddy.
Q:
How many accountants does it take to screw in a light bulb?
A: What
kind of answer did you have in mind?
Q: How many civil servants
does it take to change the light bulb?
A: 45. One to change the bulb, and
44 to do the paperwork.
Q: How many Russian leaders does it take to
change a light bulb?
A: Nobody knows. Russian leaders don't last as long as
light bulbs.
Q: How many nuclear engineers does it take to change
a light bulb?
A: 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.
Q: How many pre-med
students does it take to change a light bulb?
A: Five: One to change
the bulb and four to pull the ladder out from under him.
Q: How many
Christians does it take to change a light bulb?
A: Three, but they're really
only one.
Q: How many Christian Scientists does it take to screw
in a light bulb?
A: None, but it takes at least one to sit and pray for
the old one to go back on.
Q: How many jugglers does it take to change
a light bulb?
A: One, but it takes at least three light bulbs.
Q:
How many Feminists does it take to change a light bulb?
A: Thats not
funny!!!
Q: How many 'Cliffie girls does it take to change a light
bulb?
A: It's "Radcliffe Women" and it's not funny!
Q: How many
economists does it take to screw in a light bulb?
A: Two. One to assume
the ladder and one to change the bulb.
A: None. If the government would just
leave it alone, it would screw itself in.
Q: How many Valley Girls
does it take to change a light bulb?
A: Oooh, like, manual labor? Gag me
with a spoon! For sure.
Q: How many data base people does it take to
change a light bulb?
A: Three: One to write the light bulb removal program,
one to write the light bulb insertion program, and one to act as a light bulb
administrator to make sure nobody else tries to change the light bulb at the
same time.
Q: How many Windows programmers does it take to change a
light bulb?
A: 472. One to write WinGetLightBulbHandle, one to write WinQueryStatusLightBulb,
one to write WinGetLightSwitchHandle...
Q: How
many managers does it take to change a light bulb?
A: We've formed a task
force to study the problem of why light bulbs burn out, and figure out what, exactly,
we as supervisors can do to make the bulbs work smarter, not harder.
Q:
How many IUS folks does it take to change a light bulb?
A: IUS
has received your request concerning your hardware problem, and has assigned your
request Ticket Number 39712. Please use this number for any future reference
to this light bulb issue. As soon as a technician becomes available, you will
be contacted.
Q: How many Tech Support folks does it take to change
a light bulb?
A: We have an exact copy of the light bulb here, and it seems
to be working fine. Can you tell me what kind of system you have? Ok. Now, exactly
how dark is it? Ok, there could be four or five things wrong... have you
tried the light switch?
Q: How many Microsoft technicians does it take
to change a light bulb?
A: Three: two holding the ladder and one to screw
the bulb into a faucet.
Q: How many Microsoft vice presidents does
it take to change a light bulb?
A: Eight: one to work the bulb and seven
to make sure Microsoft gets $2 for every light bulb ever changed anywhere in the
world.
Q: How many testers does it take to change a light bulb?
A:
We just noticed the room was dark; we don't actually fix the problems.
Q:
How many developers does it take to change a light bulb?
A: The
light bulb works fine on the system in my office...
Q: How many C++
programmers does it take to change a light bulb?
A: You're still thinking
procedurally. A properly designed light bulb object would inherit a change method
from a generic light bulb class, so all you'd have to do is send a light
bulb change message.
Q: How many shipping dept. personnel does it take
to change a light bulb?
A: We can change the bulb in 7-10 working days;
if you call before 2pm and pay an extra $15 we can get the bulb changed overnight.
Don't forget to put your name in the upper right hand corner of the light
bulb box.
Q: How long does it take a DEC repairman to change a light
bulb?
A: It depends on how many burnt-out lightbulbs he brought with him.
Q:
How many Windows users does it take to change a lightbulb?
A:
One, but she/he'll swear up and down that it was JUST as easy for him as it
would be for a Macintosh user.
Q: How many Newtons does it take to change
a lightbulb?
A: Foux! There to eat lemons, axe gravy soup.
Q:
How many Microsoft engineers does it take to change a light bulb?
A:
None, Bill Gates will just redefine Darkness(tm) as the new industry standard.
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