Ok, so there’s this bunch of loonies that wants to take away my Constitutional right to incandescent light bulbs, and FORCE me to use compact flourescent bulbs, like I’m some sort of commie serf.
Well… I guess I’ll go along with it, since they’ll shoot me if I don’t and this isn’t worth dying for. It’s not like they’re taking away my porn.
Just one question, though:
How am I supposed to operate my Easy-Bake Oven?
UPDATE 3-19-07 9pm:
Reader Guillaume points out that it’s not just my Easy-Bake that’s in trouble.
Give these people an inch and they take 100 miles. What’s next?
Are they going to tell us what toilet paper to use, what kind or prophylactics we can use or what kind of manure we can use on our lawns.
I truly wish some of these folks could get a life and stop interfering in mine. They apparently have way too much time on their hands. Maybe someone should introduce them to blogging. Might keep them home at night and keep them from sticking their noses into my business, home and lamp shades. They can pontificate from the comfort of their own homes. Squinting to see in the semi dark from their awful light bulbs.
Harvey,
Tell them you are being punished enough already having to post on the slowest loading website on the Internet. I used to think this site was cool but I am getting to the point where it is not worth my time to try and open the site. It is poorly formatted so it does not work well on a PDA either. I love capitalism but this site has gone over the edge with ads.
Fear not. The maginalized Edison bulbs will be brought to safety via the incandescent underground railroad.
the easy bake oven will still operate. you just need to start your July 4 cookies right about….nnnnnnnnnn-NOW!
Just switch the Easy-Bake Oven over to halogen. This has the added bonus of baking your cupcakes in only 5 seconds!
I’m stocking up so you can contact me.
Since I’ll have to decide if you’re bulb-worthy, you might want to make with teh funny.
It’s worse than you thought, Harvey. They do not even make the new bulbs in all of the sizes the others were available in.
Francesco – So… you’re suggesting we go on a rampage and shoot every compact flourescent bulb we see?
Hmmm…. all right, I’m in.
I recommend a shotgun with snake shot. Better scatter. And who says we Conservatives aren’t economical?
Here in NYC, paying through the nose for Con Edison, any romantic connection to Thomas Alva vanished sometime in the Eisenhower era. Since his bulb gives off 95% of its energy as heat, they’re better suited for Easy Bake ovens, and running up your electric bill. So the fluorescents sound like a good idea to me.
What’s ironic is that the symbol for AN IDEA will be replaced forever by a better idea. Edison, I’m sure, would approve – and then try to screw them out of the patent.
Do they even understand that compact fluorescents are full of mercury? There are LEDs but they are full of cyanide. I guess they prefer poisoned water supplies over warm winters?
Salty… you get the heck outta here with your logic. Leftards hate it when we pick up on their inconsistencies. Probably reminds them of the fact that logic eludes them in their developmentally disabled way.
Won’t anyone think of the poor autistic kids who are bothered by fluorescent lighting? (see #9 on the page I linked)
“Incandescent light bulbs were first developed almost 125 years ago,” Mr. Levine said, “and since that time they have undergone no major modifications.”
Fire was developed hundreds of thousands of years ago, and has undergone no modification whatsoever. I propose we ban fire for the sake of the environment. And of course the children.
Yeah… they’ll babble on about how much energy it is supposed to save, meantime, they’re investing in that recycling service that we’re going to have to pay through the nose for in order to “legally” dispose of the mercury laden bulbs that we were forced to convert to for our own good.
I used to think this site was cool but I am getting to the point where it is not worth my time to try and open the site. It is poorly formatted so it does not work well on a PDA either. I love capitalism but this site has gone over the edge with ads.
Ron Dorkstar,
You should probably upgrade that dial-up connection of yours. If you have a good broadband connection the ads and the content load just fine. There are some pretty great ads here. T-shirt ads, books from Amazon.com, Pajamas Media skyscrapers and Cafepress affiliate program topic ads. There’s even some contextual ads from Google on the right side bar that are showing me some relevant ads for light bulbs. What’s better than that Dorkstar? Ads all about exactly what we are discussing? It’s fracking perfect.
That’s the point of the site really. And it’s why I’m here. I disagree with most of the content and I often point out why the person who wrote it is
completely and totally wrong. But I’m not angry at the ads like you are. Ads are what capitalism is all about. Deal with it.
An Easy-Bake Oven Harvey? Grow up.
Looks like SOMEONE won’t be getting any Easy-Bake cakes during IMAO Commenter Appreciation Days…
Boy, just click on the link to SUPERDUD, er, Sarcasm Man and look at the All About sidebar – that tells you everything you need to know.
Sarcasm Man’s Blog is titled “Twitter” which seems farily gay to me… Definition…
twit·ter [twit-er] Pronunciation Key – Show IPA Pronunciation
–verb (used without object)
1. to utter a succession of small, tremulous sounds, as a bird.
2. to talk lightly and rapidly, esp. of trivial matters; chatter.
3. to titter; giggle.
4. to tremble with excitement or the like; be in a flutter.
–verb (used with object)
5. to express or utter by twittering.
–noun
6. an act of twittering.
7. a twittering sound.
This is the reason why I left, you insensitive jerk. You never write, you never call.