Date:         Wed, 21 Jul 1999 19:12:07 -0500
Reply-To:     Eckie Prater <Eckie@PRATER.COM>
Sender:       Vanagon Mailing List <vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com>
From:         Eckie Prater <Eckie@PRATER.COM>
Subject:      I know it's not Friday, but..........
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>From the Nova List but funny as hell.


> Q: How many list subscribers does it take to change a spark plug?
> A: 1,445:
> --1 to change the spark plug and to post to the mail list that the
> spark plug has been changed;
> --14 to share similar experiences of changing spark plugs and how the
> spark plug could have been changed differently;
> --7 to caution about the dangers of changing spark plugs;
> --27 to point out spelling/grammar errors in posts about changing
spark
> plugs;
> --53 to flame the spell checkers;
> --41 to correct spelling/grammar flames;
> --6 to argue over whether it磗 创sparkplug创 or 创spark plug创 and
> another 6 to condemn those 6 as anal-retentive;
> --156 to write to the list administrator about the spark plug
> discussion and its inappropriateness to this mail list;
> --109 to post that this list is not about spark plugs and to please
> take this email exchange to sparkplug-l;
> --203 to demand that cross posting to grammar-l, spelling-l and
> sparkplug-l about changing spark plugs be stopped;
> --111 to defend the posting to this list saying that we all use spark
> plugs and therefore the posts *are* relevant to this mail list;
> --306 to debate which method of changing spark plugs is superior,
where
> to buy the best spark plugs, what brand of spark plugs work best for
> this technique and what brands are faulty;
> --41 to point out that not all of us use spark plugs, representing all
> diesel owners;
> --58 to question why diesel owners are on a non-diesel mailing list;
> --3 to comment about conversions to electric;
> --27 to post URLs where one can see examples of different spark plugs;
> --14 to post that the URLs were posted incorrectly and to post the
> corrected URLs;
> --3 to post about links they found from the URLs that are relevant to
> this list which makes spark plugs relevant to this list;
> --33 to link all posts to date, then quote them including all headers
> and footers and then add 创Me too创;
> --12 to post to the list that they are unsubscribing because they
> cannot handle the spark plug controversy;
> --19 to quote the 创Me too磗创 to say 创Me three创;
> --4 to suggest that posters request the spark plug FAQ;
> --44 to ask what is 创FAQ创;
> --4 to say创didn磘 we go through this already a short time ago dealing
> with oil filters?创
> --143 to ask 创what磗 an oil filter?创