And one to point out that this is called a Knurled Thumb Screw, and replacements may be found here.
You left out 3 Dopers to post pictures of their cats. One cat is actually playing with a light bulb, the other two are simply playing in a house that contains light bulbs. An additional Doper that misses a recently deceased cat is optional but not required.
I love you guys.
And whatever you do, MAKE SURE TO TURN OFF THE POWER FIRST!
Thank you for an excuse to provide the obligatory link to The Thread that Convinced Me to Join SDMB.
Oh definitely use a compact fluorescent bulb–just so you don’t have to change the bulb for years and years. I used ones that said 9 years on the package for the pesky kitchen fixture. By that time I’ll be so old I’ll have to have someone else get up there to change it for me. Or I won’t care…
That was glorious. I heard that the potato in question was later inherited by Hans Gruber’s card-playing, middle-aged sister who enjoyed sexual trysts with rather younger men, which made it a euchre cougar’s Bob Uecker the Newber Hans Gruber’s Huber pseudotriton ruber ruber uber scuba goober boob tuber luber FUBAR cuber™
