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Q: How many alt.folklore.urban readers does it take to screw in a lightbulb?
A: One, who'll do it for food.

From "Little Moron' Stories" by Ernest W. Baughman, 'Hoosier Folklore Bulletin' 1943. - Quoted in B.A. Botkin (ED) A Treasury of American Folklore, Newyork: Crown Publishers, 1944.
Little moron was painting the house when another one came up and said, "Got a good hold on that brush?"
"Yep."
"Well, if you are sure you got a good hold on that brush I'll borrow your ladder for a second."
"O.K. but don't keep it long. The handle of this paint brush is kind of slippery."
Little moron's wife send him down town after a bucket of ice. He came back with a pail of water. "I got this for half price because it was melted."
Little moron took two slices of bread and went down and sat on the street corner waiting for the traffic jam. A big truck came along and gave him a jar.
Q: Why did the little moron go to the lumber yard?
A: To look for his draft board.

Q: How many alt. anagrams readers does it take to change a lightbulb?
A: Three. One to say it can't be done because there aren't enough vowels, one to be clever and change "a lightbulb" into "bull bit hag", and one to try and sell copies of the "Anagram for Windows" program he wrote.

Q: How many alt. fan. pratchett readers does it take to change a light bulb?
A: Four. One to actually change the bulb, one to write amusing footnotes about it, one to propose to Laura, and a newbie to ask if that's really THE Terry Or colette or both, and then to realise that the speed of light can't be measured, except in badgers, or possibly multiple of pi, then to say sod it and ask if anyone knows where to find the lyrics for the hedgehog song...

Q: How many alt. folklore. urban readers does it take to screw in a lightbulb?
A: It depends on the way the bulb is threaded.

Q: How many alt. folklore. urban readers does it take more...

Q: How many alt.folklore.urban readers does it take to screw in a lightbulb?
A: It depends on the way the bulb is threaded.

Q: How many alt.folklore.urban readers does it take to screw in a lightbulb?
A: One, to be dying of cancer and request that everybody around the world send him light bulbs so he can get into the Guinness Book of World Records.