An endangered species
I am lamenting the extinction of a beloved species of joke, one doomed by advances in technology. Humorous anecdotes about changing lightbulbs will completely disappear within my lifetime. They will be gone forever. Our grandchildren will discover old remnants in books or historical Internet files and ask “Why did people call lights ‘bulbs,’ and why did they have to change them?” It will be like trying to explain old jokes about setting the “points” in a car engine.
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