-- How many
light bulb jokes
-- does it take to change a light bulb joke?
Hmmmm - the probability that a given light bulb joke will be
submitted to the net in any given week is .4, and the
probability that it will have changed detectably since the
last transmission is .2 . Hence (assuming independence, which
is reasonable since no submitter of a light bulb joke ever
seems to know it has been submitted before, within the last 2
or 3 weeks), the probability that it will change in a given
week is .08. So it takes about 12.5 light bulb jokes to
change a light bulb joke.
How many
rec.humor readers
-- does it take to change a light bulb?
565. 1 to put in a trick bulb (say, a flash bulb), 6 to
flame the first, pointing out that this bulb is
different from the old one, 29 to counter-flame,
pointing out that the new bulb is deliberately
different, and is parodying the old one, 7 to leave the
room, citing the extreme density of the 6, 12 to demand
that this commentary be redirected to the other room, 14
to ask that the bulb be changed again, since they missed
seeing it the first time, and 496 (a bit excessive, but
it's not my joke) to climb all over each other, trying
to put the old bulb back in....
