# If you flick it more than once, you're playing with it **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [April 21, 2008, 2:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-flick-it-more-than-once-youre-playing-with-it/446230 "2008-04-21T14:31:46Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![RealityChuck](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/realitychuck/32/195_2.png) [@RealityChuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RealityChuck)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2008, 2:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-flick-it-more-than-once-youre-playing-with-it/446230/1 "2008-04-21T14:31:46Z")
[How **not** to express your faith.](http://www.drury.com/) ---
**Author:** ![Brown\_Eyed\_Girl](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/brown_eyed_girl/32/3574_2.png) [@Brown\_Eyed\_Girl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Brown_Eyed_Girl)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2008, 2:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-flick-it-more-than-once-youre-playing-with-it/446230/2 "2008-04-21T14:43:44Z")
:eek: :eek: :eek: :smack: ---
**Author:** ![tdn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/94ad74/32.png) [@tdn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tdn)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2008, 2:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-flick-it-more-than-once-youre-playing-with-it/446230/3 "2008-04-21T14:45:03Z")
If my landlord would allow it, I would so get one of those. ---
**Author:** ![Hypno-Toad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/b2d939/32.png) [@Hypno-Toad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hypno-Toad)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2008, 2:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-flick-it-more-than-once-youre-playing-with-it/446230/4 "2008-04-21T14:52:01Z")
I’m guessing that the “up” position is when it’s turned on. ---
**Author:** ![Colophon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f05b48/32.png) [@Colophon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colophon)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2008, 2:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-flick-it-more-than-once-youre-playing-with-it/446230/5 "2008-04-21T14:53:25Z")
Er, should I click that at work? ---
**Author:** ![eleanorigby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ee7513/32.png) [@eleanorigby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eleanorigby)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2008, 2:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-flick-it-more-than-once-youre-playing-with-it/446230/6 "2008-04-21T14:57:22Z")
[QUOTE=Colophon] Er, should I click that at work? [/QUOTE] It’s perfectly safe–it’s what Jesus would do. Let your light shine and all that… heh. I’m not sure if it’s better or worse that the kids are there. Would be skeevier if Jesus were alone? ---
**Author:** ![The\_Lovely\_Margo\_Lane](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/34f0e0/32.png) [@The\_Lovely\_Margo\_Lane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Lovely_Margo_Lane)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2008, 2:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-flick-it-more-than-once-youre-playing-with-it/446230/7 "2008-04-21T14:58:34Z")
[QUOTE=tdn] If my landlord would allow it, I would so get one of those. [/QUOTE] What kind of micro-managing landlord won’t let you switch out a switch-plate? Or do you just think he/she’d be offended by the imagery? ---
**Author:** ![Brown\_Eyed\_Girl](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/brown_eyed_girl/32/3574_2.png) [@Brown\_Eyed\_Girl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Brown_Eyed_Girl)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2008, 3:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-flick-it-more-than-once-youre-playing-with-it/446230/8 "2008-04-21T15:02:25Z")
[QUOTE=eleanorigby] I’m not sure if it’s better or worse that the kids are there. Would be skeevier if Jesus were alone? [/QUOTE] No, the kids staring at the switch makes it that much skeevier. ---
**Author:** ![Colophon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f05b48/32.png) [@Colophon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colophon)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2008, 3:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-flick-it-more-than-once-youre-playing-with-it/446230/9 "2008-04-21T15:02:43Z")
OMG. Jesus in a glory hole? ---
**Author:** ![tdn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/94ad74/32.png) [@tdn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tdn)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2008, 3:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-flick-it-more-than-once-youre-playing-with-it/446230/10 "2008-04-21T15:18:55Z")
[QUOTE=The Lovely Margo Lane] What kind of micro-managing landlord won’t let you switch out a switch-plate? Or do you just think he/she’d be offended by the imagery? [/QUOTE] I’ve been told – second hand – that switching out light plates is not allowed in the building. I have no idea if that’s actually true. But at any rate, some of the maintenence guys that come into my place are pretty religious. Best not to piss off the people that control the functioning of my toilet. ---
**Author:** ![Colophon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f05b48/32.png) [@Colophon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colophon)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2008, 3:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-flick-it-more-than-once-youre-playing-with-it/446230/11 "2008-04-21T15:22:46Z")
[QUOTE=tdn] But at any rate, some of the maintenence guys that come into my place are pretty religious. Best not to piss off the people that control the functioning of my toilet. [/QUOTE] I dunno, it would be kind of funny asking them if they’d seen the light. 😛 ---
**Author:** ![Larry\_Mudd](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/f14d63/32.png) [@Larry\_Mudd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Larry_Mudd)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2008, 3:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-flick-it-more-than-once-youre-playing-with-it/446230/12 "2008-04-21T15:22:55Z")
Not an example of intelligent design, I guess. ---
**Author:** ![eleanorigby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ee7513/32.png) [@eleanorigby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eleanorigby)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2008, 3:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-flick-it-more-than-once-youre-playing-with-it/446230/13 "2008-04-21T15:25:07Z")
[QUOTE=Brown Eyed Girl] No, the kids staring at the switch makes it that much skeevier. [/QUOTE] But the thought of Him getting jiggy with it all alone is pretty squicky, too… Anyway, we all know that Jesus didn’t have a penis. He had a decorously placed loincloth when he wasn’t swaddled or engulfed in robes. 😛 ---
**Author:** ![Amp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/6a8cbe/32.png) [@Amp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Amp)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2008, 3:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-flick-it-more-than-once-youre-playing-with-it/446230/14 "2008-04-21T15:26:26Z")
Hmmm… Jesus is a shower, not a grower. ---
**Author:** ![Colophon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f05b48/32.png) [@Colophon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colophon)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2008, 3:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-flick-it-more-than-once-youre-playing-with-it/446230/15 "2008-04-21T15:28:28Z")
It’s the 60-watt Jesus would do. ---
**Author:** ![tdn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/94ad74/32.png) [@tdn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tdn)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2008, 3:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-flick-it-more-than-once-youre-playing-with-it/446230/16 "2008-04-21T15:37:33Z")
[QUOTE=Colophon] I dunno, it would be kind of funny asking them if they’d seen the light. 😛 [/QUOTE] Yes. Yes it would. ---
**Author:** ![Malacandra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Malacandra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Malacandra)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2008, 3:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-flick-it-more-than-once-youre-playing-with-it/446230/17 "2008-04-21T15:44:54Z")
Oopsie. :smack: ---
**Author:** ![WordMan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/e8c25b/32.png) [@WordMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WordMan)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2008, 3:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-flick-it-more-than-once-youre-playing-with-it/446230/18 "2008-04-21T15:54:12Z")
[QUOTE=Larry Mudd] Not an example of intelligent design, I guess. [/QUOTE] _blows whistle_ We have a winner! Why does that lightswitch plate seem to be a metaphor for fundamentalists of all stripe these days? Trying to bring light to the world, but somehow those good intentions get perverted along the way when humans force their beliefs into every mundane thing around us even when it makes no sense… …or it could just be a hilarious lightswitch plate. ---
**Author:** ![jjimm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba8739/32.png) [@jjimm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jjimm)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2008, 4:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-flick-it-more-than-once-youre-playing-with-it/446230/19 "2008-04-21T16:05:42Z")
[QUOTE=Colophon] It’s the 60-watt Jesus would do. [/QUOTE] Watt wood Jesus do? ---
**Author:** ![The\_Lovely\_Margo\_Lane](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/34f0e0/32.png) [@The\_Lovely\_Margo\_Lane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Lovely_Margo_Lane)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2008, 5:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-flick-it-more-than-once-youre-playing-with-it/446230/20 "2008-04-21T17:38:01Z")
[QUOTE=tdn] I’ve been told – second hand – that switching out light plates is not allowed in the building. I have no idea if that’s actually true. But at any rate, some of the maintenence guys that come into my place are pretty religious. Best not to piss off the people that control the functioning of my toilet. [/QUOTE] Makes sense. I was just picturing some insanely detailed lease with about 14 pages of bullet points… -tenant will not change switchplates or outlet covers -tenant will replace all lightbulbs with “GE” brand 75-watt frosted white lamps -tenant will use only pre-approved cleaning products (see appendix “C” for full list) -Plants must be in pots no larger than 12" in diameter, and may not be allowed to grow to a hight of more than 18" and so on… [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-flick-it-more-than-once-youre-playing-with-it/446230.md?page=2)