How do you change a sparkplug?

[westcott@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]

QUESTION:  How many list subscribers does it take to change a sparkplug?*

ANSWER:
- -1,445 to change the sparkplug and to post to the mail list that the
sparkplug has been changed,
- -14 to share similar experiences of changing sparkplugs and how the
sparkplug could have been changed differently,
- -7 to caution about the dangers of changing sparkplugs,
- -27 to point out spelling/grammar errors in posts about changing sparkplugs,
- -53 to flame the spell checkers,
- -41 to correct spelling/grammar flames,
- -6 to argue  over whether it's sparkplug? or spark plug? and another 6 to
condemn those 6 as anal-retentive,
- -156 to write to the list administrator about the sparkplug discussion and
its inappropriateness to this mail list,
- -109 to post that this list is not about sparkplugs and to please take this
email exchange to sparkplug.com,
- -203 to demand that cross posting to grammar.com, spelling.com and
sparkplug.com about changing sparkplugs be stopped,
- -111 to defend the posting to this list saying that we all use sparkplugs
and therefore the posts are relevant to this mail list,
- -306 to debate which method of changing sparkplugs is superior, where to buy
the best sparkplugs, what brands of sparkplugs work best for this technique
and what brands are faulty,
- -41 to point out that not all of us use sparkplugs, representing all diesel
owners,
- -58 to question why diesel owners are on a non-diesel list,
- -3 to comment that everyone should scrap the gas engine in their motorcycle
and convert their bike to an electric motorcycle,
- -27 to post URLs where one can see examples of different sparkplugs,
- -14 to post that the URLs were posted incorrectly and to post the corrected
URLs,
- -3 to post about links they found from the URLs that are relevant to this
list which makes sparkplugs relevant to this list,
- -33 to link all posts to date, then quote them including all headers and
footers and then add "Me too,"
- -12 to post to the list that they are unsubscribing  because they cannot
handle the sparkplug controversy,
- -19 to quote the Me too's? to say "Me three,"
- -4 to demand that posters first go read the sparkplug FAQ before wasting
valuable email space on this list,
- -44 to ask "What is FAQ?",
- -4 to say "Didn't we go through this already a short time ago when we were
dealing with oil filters?',
- -143 to ask "What's an oil filter?"

(*reprinted from the HSTA Star Review, August 1999 and the ST100 list)

John Westcott
San Antonio, Texas





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