OT: Centennial Light Bulb Committee?!...

[Commander Kinsey]

On Fri, 21 Aug 2020 05:12:13 +0100, micky <NONONOmisc07@bigfoot.com> wrote:

In alt.home.repair, on Fri, 21 Aug 2020 01:46:47 +0100, \"Commander
Kinsey\" <CFKinsey@military.org.jp> wrote:

On Fri, 21 Aug 2020 00:03:11 +0100, Snit <usenet@gallopinginsanity.com> wrote:

On Aug 20, 2020 at 4:00:55 PM MST, \"\"Commander Kinsey\"\"
CFKinsey@military.org.jp> wrote:

Just when you thought the world couldn\'t get any weirder:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Centennial_Light

\"The Centennial Light is the world\'s longest-lasting light bulb, burning
since 1901, and almost never switched off.\"

\"The bulb is cared for by the Centennial Light Bulb Committee, a partnership
of the Livermore-Pleasanton Fire Department, Livermore Heritage Guild,
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratories, and Sandia National Laboratories.\"

Have heard of it before... the folks who made it must have been bright.

I\'ve never heard of an incandescent bulb getting that much dimmer. Perhaps it was a one-off fault, or an older design with different filament material?

Or just that it\'s old.

My grandmother in her pantry had a light bulb with a point on the end,
and when she sold the house, I took the bulb and stored in my bedroom
closet.

While I was away at college, my mother sold that house and I totally
forgot to tell her to take the lightbulb. In fact it was close enough I
could have gone home and gotten it.

That was 1967.

When I was iin Indianapolis in 2008, I went to my old house and I was
going to ask them for the bulb. The socket was broken -- no chain --
and it was a shallow closet that didn\'t need more light than the room
provided, and it seemed possible they\'d noticed the chain was missing
and just ignored the bulb for 40 years. I went twice a day for the 3
days I was there but they were never home and there were no footprints
jn the snow.

I went home and tried to figure out their name and number but I couldn\'t
figure it out. Now it\'s 53 years and the odds I can get that bulb are
getting smaller and smaller. Darn.


How old would a bulb with a point on it be, anyhow?

Er they still make them, they\'re called candle bulbs.

 

[Brian Gaff]

Well same details as the one pretending to be me uses. I guess he is just
bored so decided to bore the pants off the rest of us to compensate.
Brian

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On Fri, 21 Aug 2020 23:52:01 +0100, David_B <DavidB@nomail.afraid.org
wrote:

On 21/08/2020 23:34, Commander Kinsey wrote:
On Fri, 21 Aug 2020 23:11:05 +0100, David_B <DavidB@nomail.afraid.org
wrote:

Get yourself a Mac if you want to be a REAL Troll!


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Is that what Macs are for?

They are more reliable, for sure!

You remind me of one that was not. At my first job, I tried to move one
of these:
http://www.stevesonian.com/museum/desktop/PowerMac_G3_Blue_And_White/downloads/pictures/PowerMac_G3_3q.jpg
Now any normal tower computer is flat on the side. This one was rounded.
So when I put it on its side to place it on a trolley and wheeled it along
an uneven surface (the car park to someone\'s car), it fell off and smashed
into pieces.

Same type of machine, brand new, what do Apple supply it in? Some plastic
film to protect the overly shiny surfaces from scratching in transit. I
pull it off, charge myself with static, then touch the Mac. Ouch! That
hurt my finger and fucked some circuitry - my finger was at the back where
the monitor plugs in etc. Strike two to Apple. That was sent back under
warranty with a rude note. The supplier replaced it free of charge, with
no plastic this time!

It\'s not just Apple I hate. I was told to perform a minor repair to an HP
(spit!) laserjet an American had brought with him. He had been using it
in his office, so I thought nothing of carrying it down to my workshop to
test it. What happened when I plugged it in? A loud bang. I then
remembered the 240V to 120V transformer I\'d fitted in his office a
fortnight earlier. I guess HP had never heard of dual voltage auto
switching supplies. I threw the blasted thing in the bin and bought him a
brand new man\'s voltage Brother printer.

 

[micky]

In alt.home.repair, on Sat, 22 Aug 2020 01:19:52 +0100, \"Commander
Kinsey\" <CFKinsey@military.org.jp> wrote:

On Fri, 21 Aug 2020 05:12:13 +0100, micky <NONONOmisc07@bigfoot.com> wrote:

I\'ve never heard of an incandescent bulb getting that much dimmer. Perhaps it was a one-off fault, or an older design with different filament material?

Or just that it\'s old.

My grandmother in her pantry had a light bulb with a point on the end,
and when she sold the house, I took the bulb and stored in my bedroom
closet.

While I was away at college, my mother sold that house and I totally
forgot to tell her to take the lightbulb. In fact it was close enough I
could have gone home and gotten it.

That was 1967.

When I was iin Indianapolis in 2008, I went to my old house and I was
going to ask them for the bulb. The socket was broken -- no chain --
and it was a shallow closet that didn\'t need more light than the room
provided, and it seemed possible they\'d noticed the chain was missing
and just ignored the bulb for 40 years. I went twice a day for the 3
days I was there but they were never home and there were no footprints
jn the snow.

I went home and tried to figure out their name and number but I couldn\'t
figure it out. Now it\'s 53 years and the odds I can get that bulb are
getting smaller and smaller. Darn.


How old would a bulb with a point on it be, anyhow?

Er they still make them, they\'re called candle bulbs.

But I\'m not talking about those. I\'m talking about bulbs the same basic
shape as the standard lightbulb from the 1950\'s or earlier to the
1990\'s, except the glass comes up to a point at the top end.

It wasnt frosted and iirc the filament went up and down an inch while
progressing around almost a full circle.. /\\/\\/\\/\\/\\

 

[Peeler]

On Sat, 22 Aug 2020 03:56:31 +0100, Brainless & Daft, the notorious,
troll-feeding senile idiot, blathered again:

Well same details as the one pretending to be me uses. I guess he is just
bored so decided to bore the pants off the rest of us to compensate.
Brainless & Daft

You just had to open your stupid gob again, you blind blithering shithead!

 

[Peeler]

On Fri, 21 Aug 2020 23:19:56 +0100, David_Braindead, another mentally
deficient troll-feeding senile idiot, blathered:

Does \"don\'t know much\" mean that there is much he doesn\'t know, or he
doesn\'t \"know lots of things\".  Is there a difference, who cares, and
write a 2000 word essay on it.

You don\'t know that you were responding to a forger?!!

You don\'t know that you are playing a troll\'s game, you troll-feeding senile
cretin?

 

[Peeler]

On Fri, 21 Aug 2020 23:38:15 +0100, David_Braindead, another mentally
deficient troll-feeding senile idiot, blathered:

Of course! ;-)

I expect one of your parrots could have provided a choice phrase!

I expect yet more shit getting squeezed out of your sick head, senile
shithead!

 

[Peeler]

On Sat, 22 Aug 2020 00:48:09 -0400, micky, the mentally deficient,
troll-feeding, senile asshole, blathered:

Er they still make them, they\'re called candle bulbs.

But I\'m not talking about those. I\'m talking about bulbs the same basic

You\'d better worry about that dim bulb sitting on your neck, you
troll-feeding dim bulb!

 

[David_B]

On 22/08/2020 01:17, Commander Kinsey wrote:

On Fri, 21 Aug 2020 23:52:01 +0100, David_B <DavidB@nomail.afraid.org
wrote:

On 21/08/2020 23:34, Commander Kinsey wrote:
On Fri, 21 Aug 2020 23:11:05 +0100, David_B <DavidB@nomail.afraid.org
wrote:

Get yourself a Mac if you want to be a REAL Troll!


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Is that what Macs are for?

They are more reliable, for sure!

You remind me of one that was not.  At my first job, I tried to move one
of these:
http://www.stevesonian.com/museum/desktop/PowerMac_G3_Blue_And_White/downloads/pictures/PowerMac_G3_3q.jpg

Now any normal tower computer is flat on the side.  This one was
rounded.  So when I put it on its side to place it on a trolley and
wheeled it along an uneven surface (the car park to someone\'s car), it
fell off and smashed into pieces.

Same type of machine, brand new, what do Apple supply it in?  Some
plastic film to protect the overly shiny surfaces from scratching in
transit.  I pull it off, charge myself with static, then touch the Mac.
Ouch!  That hurt my finger and fucked some circuitry - my finger was at
the back where the monitor plugs in etc.  Strike two to Apple.  That was
sent back under warranty with a rude note.  The supplier replaced it
free of charge, with no plastic this time!

It\'s not just Apple I hate.  I was told to perform a minor repair to an
HP (spit!) laserjet an American had brought with him.  He had been using
it in his office, so I thought nothing of carrying it down to my
workshop to test it.  What happened when I plugged it in?  A loud bang.
I then remembered the 240V to 120V transformer I\'d fitted in his office
a fortnight earlier.  I guess HP had never heard of dual voltage auto
switching supplies.  I threw the blasted thing in the bin and bought him
a brand new man\'s voltage Brother printer.

I do so love your stories! ❤️

All absolutely true, I\'m sure! :-D

 

[David_B]

On 22/08/2020 01:18, Commander Kinsey wrote:

On Fri, 21 Aug 2020 23:38:15 +0100, David_B <DavidB@nomail.afraid.org
wrote:

On 21/08/2020 23:33, Commander Kinsey wrote:
On Fri, 21 Aug 2020 23:19:56 +0100, David_B <DavidB@nomail.afraid.org
wrote:

On 21/08/2020 21:21, Commander Kinsey wrote:
On Fri, 21 Aug 2020 02:42:47 +0100, David_B <DavidB@n0mail.afraid.org
wrote:

On 8/20/2020 6:39 PM, Snit wrote:
On Aug 20, 2020 at 5:46:47 PM MST, \"\"Commander Kinsey\"\"
CFKinsey@military.org.jp> wrote:

On Fri, 21 Aug 2020 00:03:11 +0100, Snit
usenet@gallopinginsanity.com
wrote:

  On Aug 20, 2020 at 4:00:55 PM MST, \"\"Commander Kinsey\"\"
  <CFKinsey@military.org.jp> wrote:

  Just when you thought the world couldn\'t get any weirder:

  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Centennial_Light

  \"The Centennial Light is the world\'s longest-lasting light
bulb,
burning
  since 1901, and almost never switched off.\"

  \"The bulb is cared for by the Centennial Light Bulb
Committee, a
partnership
  of the Livermore-Pleasanton Fire Department, Livermore Heritage
Guild,
  Lawrence Livermore National Laboratories, and Sandia National
Laboratories.\"

  Have heard of it before... the folks who made it must have been
bright.

I\'ve never heard of an incandescent bulb getting that much dimmer.
Perhaps
it was a one-off fault, or an older design with different filament
material?

Or they put less power through it? Don\'t know.


You don\'t know much, and that\'s a fact.

Does \"don\'t know much\" mean that there is much he doesn\'t know, or he
doesn\'t \"know lots of things\".  Is there a difference, who cares, and
write a 2000 word essay on it.

You don\'t know that you were responding to a forger?!!

Yes, should I have prefixed it with something rude?

Of course! ;-)

I expect one of your parrots could have provided a choice phrase!

Despite me swearing a lot, they never seem to copy it.

Perhaps they are giving you a message!!!

 

[David_B]

On 22/08/2020 01:19, Commander Kinsey wrote:

On Fri, 21 Aug 2020 05:12:13 +0100, micky <NONONOmisc07@bigfoot.com> wrote:

In alt.home.repair, on Fri, 21 Aug 2020 01:46:47 +0100, \"Commander
Kinsey\" <CFKinsey@military.org.jp> wrote:

On Fri, 21 Aug 2020 00:03:11 +0100, Snit
usenet@gallopinginsanity.com> wrote:

On Aug 20, 2020 at 4:00:55 PM MST, \"\"Commander Kinsey\"\"
CFKinsey@military.org.jp> wrote:

Just when you thought the world couldn\'t get any weirder:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Centennial_Light

\"The Centennial Light is the world\'s longest-lasting light bulb,
burning
since 1901, and almost never switched off.\"

\"The bulb is cared for by the Centennial Light Bulb Committee, a
partnership
of the Livermore-Pleasanton Fire Department, Livermore Heritage Guild,
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratories, and Sandia National
Laboratories.\"

Have heard of it before... the folks who made it must have been bright.

I\'ve never heard of an incandescent bulb getting that much dimmer.
Perhaps it was a one-off fault, or an older design with different
filament material?

Or just that it\'s old.

My grandmother in her pantry had a light bulb with a point on the end,
and when she sold the house, I took the bulb and stored in my bedroom
closet.

While I was away at college, my mother sold that house and I totally
forgot to tell her to take the lightbulb.  In fact it was close enough I
could have gone home and gotten it.

That was 1967.

When I was iin Indianapolis in 2008, I went to my old house and I was
going to ask them for the bulb.   The socket was broken -- no chain --
and it was a shallow closet that didn\'t need more light than the room
provided, and it seemed possible they\'d noticed the chain was missing
and just ignored the bulb for 40 years.   I went twice a day for the 3
days I was there but they were never home and there were no footprints
jn the snow.

I went home and tried to figure out their name and number but I couldn\'t
figure it out.   Now it\'s 53  years and the odds I can get that bulb are
getting smaller and smaller.   Darn.


How old would a bulb with a point on it be, anyhow?

Er they still make them, they\'re called candle bulbs.

*NO*!

Look at the point on THIS lamp:-
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/8f/Centennial-Light-Bulb-pendant-light-in-Livermore-CA-2016.jpg

PS - Bulbs grow in a garden!

 

[David_B]

On 22/08/2020 05:48, micky wrote:

In alt.home.repair, on Sat, 22 Aug 2020 01:19:52 +0100, \"Commander
Kinsey\" <CFKinsey@military.org.jp> wrote:

On Fri, 21 Aug 2020 05:12:13 +0100, micky <NONONOmisc07@bigfoot.com> wrote:

I\'ve never heard of an incandescent bulb getting that much dimmer. Perhaps it was a one-off fault, or an older design with different filament material?

Or just that it\'s old.

My grandmother in her pantry had a light bulb with a point on the end,
and when she sold the house, I took the bulb and stored in my bedroom
closet.

While I was away at college, my mother sold that house and I totally
forgot to tell her to take the lightbulb. In fact it was close enough I
could have gone home and gotten it.

That was 1967.

When I was iin Indianapolis in 2008, I went to my old house and I was
going to ask them for the bulb. The socket was broken -- no chain --
and it was a shallow closet that didn\'t need more light than the room
provided, and it seemed possible they\'d noticed the chain was missing
and just ignored the bulb for 40 years. I went twice a day for the 3
days I was there but they were never home and there were no footprints
jn the snow.

I went home and tried to figure out their name and number but I couldn\'t
figure it out. Now it\'s 53 years and the odds I can get that bulb are
getting smaller and smaller. Darn.


How old would a bulb with a point on it be, anyhow?

Er they still make them, they\'re called candle bulbs.

But I\'m not talking about those. I\'m talking about bulbs the same basic
shape as the standard lightbulb from the 1950\'s or earlier to the
1990\'s, except the glass comes up to a point at the top end.

It wasnt frosted and iirc the filament went up and down an inch while
progressing around almost a full circle.. /\\/\\/\\/\\/\\

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/8f/Centennial-Light-Bulb-pendant-light-in-Livermore-CA-2016.jpg

This is a bit older than that you describe.

 

[Peeler]

On Sat, 22 Aug 2020 12:17:24 +0100, David_Braindead, another mentally
deficient troll-feeding senile idiot, blathered:


> I do so love your stories! ❤️

You obviously do, senile sucker of troll cock!

 

[Peeler]

On Sat, 22 Aug 2020 12:18:31 +0100, David_Braindead, another mentally
deficient troll-feeding senile idiot, blathered:

Despite me swearing a lot, they never seem to copy it.

Perhaps they are giving you a message!!!

Unlike you, they don\'t suck him off, David_Braindead!

 

[Peeler]

On Sat, 22 Aug 2020 12:22:45 +0100, David_Braindead, another mentally
deficient troll-feeding senile idiot, blathered:


> *NO*!

*YES*! The sociopathic wanker will soon come in your mouth again, senile
sucker of troll cock!