What's your profession's light bulb joke?

As an aside - that station is now an all sports format. D&M went their separate ways in 2008.

How many librarians does it take to change a light bulb?

Public expectation answer:
Shhhh.

Recent library school graduate’s answer:
I’m going to need to look that up for you.

Experienced cataloger’s answer:
621.326

How many fruit flies does it take to screw in a light bulb?

Two.

How many Nazis does it take to change a light bulb?

Three, one to hold the bulb and two to turn the ladder.

How many Unitarians does it take to change a lightbulb?

Today we will be examinining many different lightbulb traditions. Both florescent and incandescent are perfectly acceptable and should be taken a valid expressions of wattage…However you choose to show your light…

How many Episcopalians does it take to change a light bulb?

Change? Change? My grandmother endowed that light bulb!

(I do not work in an Episcopal church but I do attend one.)

ThisSpaceforRent, I heard almost the same joke about the Episcopal diocese of Chicago: How many straight priests in this diocese does it take to change a light bulb? Answer: Oh, he can do it on his own.

When I was at my new job for about a month, the light bulb in a cheap plastic fixture went out. This is the type of fixture where you rotate the whole thing and it lifts out. It was mounted on the wall just inside my office door a bit over my head, but easily reachable. I asked if there were light bulbs in the supply closet, and was told the secretary would contact physical plant.

About a week later I came in and saw the plastic fixture lying on a chair and thought, good, they’ve changed the light bulb and forgot to put the fixture back. I tried the switch – no light. I told the secretary something must be wrong with the fixture. She said no physical plant would be back.

Three days later I came in and the light WORKED. The fixture was still on the chair. I let it lie there for another week not wanting to interfere with some union situation, but eventually after about another week put it back myself – the work of about five seconds.

This was 20 years ago. I expect the grievance is still working its way through channels.

I know :frowning: Hated to see them go. 106.7 used to be awesome - Don and Mike, Opie and Anthony, Howard Stern.

Now just crappy sports.

Q: How many _______ alums does it take to change a light bulb?
A: 10, one to change the bulb and 9 to say how much better the old one was.

Every union house I’ve been at:

Are you a <bleeped> electrician? Don’t touch that!
-and-
It’s a LAMP!

Info security:

I’m sorry, but light is a security violation. If you need an exception to policy, your manager will need to open a work order in Remedy to schedule a consultation with their line of business representative and Illumination Management.

How many public relations counselors to change a light bulb? Six.

An account executive for the client to tell to change the light bulb

An account supervisor to approve the A.E’s light bulb changing goals, strategy, tactics, implementation plan, and budget

A senior partner to meet with the client and reassure them that changing light bulbs is the agency’s highest priority and top talent is taking care of it under the watchful eye of the senior partner

An assistant account executive, whom the account executive orders to change the light bulb

An account manager, who takes care of all the paperwork and files involved in the light bulb changing project, pesters the account supervisor to sign off on anything, and forward everything to accounting

And an intern, who the assistant account executive convinces that getting out the ladder, climbing the ladder and actually changing the light bulb will look great on her resumes as, “Directly managed and was responsible for the successful implementation of (client’s) light bulb changing project, which finished on time and on budget.”

Optional: the agency’s own in-house marketing executive, who will write a news release announcing the agency has been assigned the light bulb project.

How many Freudian psychoanalysts?

Two. One to change the bulb, and one to hold the penisfatherLADDER.

Or: None, we’ll fix it in software.

(this one should be told right after the software one above.)

How many Californians does it take to screw in a light bulb.

Don’t be silly. Californians screw in hot tubs.

One thing to note: with today’s Bluetooth/Wifi connected IoT bulbs some people might need help (like their sister’s 15 year old kid) changing a bulb.

As things get more complicated one can imagine a day when 20-somethings don’t “get” the implied premise of the joke: changing a light bulb was viewed as a trivial task.

I don’t get it. Are Nazis stereotypically supposed to do things in stupid or unnecessarily complicated ways?

I thought of this one today after spending half an hour on hold with the Help Desk just to get my network account unlocked.

How many customer service reps does it take to screw in a light bulb?

Unfortunately we are experiencing a high volume of light bulb outages. There are 43 light bulbs ahead of you. Expected wait time is 74 minutes.

You need to insert “Your lightbulb is important to us” in there somewhere.

I always heard that one (and tell it) with midgets instead of fruit flies. I always love the moment or two of incomprehensibility on someone’s face before it clicks.

Props to both of you! :slight_smile:

“While you’re on hold for 74 minutes, please enjoy the four-minute loop of music (18+ times!) that we have lifted from a 1978 porn movie.”

“That is an LED bulb, right?”