[at-l] Fwd: BACKPACK-L: email list

["L. Clayton Parker" <lparker@cacaphony.net>]

Unless it is one of the new low power lightbulbs, I'm not interested.
Batteries are heavy...<VBG>

Lee I Joe

> -----Original Message-----
> At 04:09 PM 3/8/99 EST, NightShine@aol.com wrote:
> > Q: How many list subscribers does it take to change a light bulb?
>
> You forgot:
>
> 1 lister to weigh the lightbulb;
> 256 to argue that it weighs to much;
> 32 to argue that it's worth the weight;
> 2 to suggest a lighter alternative to the lightbulb;
> 36 to say the lighter alternative is too expensive;
> 3 to pipe up (again) about technology on the trail;
> 1 (naive lister) to go off on a technology tangent about cell phones;
> 35 to fuel the cell phone/technology war (again);
> Jim Owen to say "hike your own hike";
> 456 listers to agree with Jim;
> Charlie to tell us how to dispose of the lightbulb (that was too heavy in
> the first place) when we're done with it.
>
>
> Pass a marshmallow, please...
> :)  Pooh

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