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Great post!

 

They make millions of light bulbs every year and the failure of yours was probably just because there is a bad one that comes off the line every now and then. Don't let it give you a bad opinion of that brand of light bulb. Find a good bulb dealer and have it checked out.

 

You know something, it serves me right! Should have known better than to use one of those #*@#&*!! Westinghouse light bulbs.

GE bulbs rule, man! The dealers are better, the bulbs burn brighter, they cost less, and they last about a zillion times longer than all those other brands.

I'll get flamed, I'm sure, by all those dorks over on the Westinghouse board but in the light bulb world, there is only one!

 

Hey! GE is the BEST light bulb manufacturer in the world! That's why they're the best selling light bulb for so many years in a row!
I get tired of hearing all of these people flame each other for what `brand` of light bulb they use! Geez, why can't you people just deal with the fact that one bulb keeps you out of the dark the same way another bulb does, regardless of who made it!

captainoblivious, you forgot the 25 people who come out to defend the SV, and then the webmaster coming on and closing the thread, and banning the member. I love it when that happens!

 

Buy those GE light bulbs if you want but, I don't know how you can sleep with yourself! I remember the Spanish American War!
GE bulbs were used to flash right in the eyes of Teddy Roosevelt as he charged up San Juan Hill! Who was using those GE bulbs? Spanish that's who!
Will I ever forget? Hell NO!

[oh yeah, and you forgot the guy who is guilty of 'thread drift'

 

Well, if we're gonna talk battles, let's talk about the very first recorded instance of light bulb strategy. I'm talkin the Battle of Jerico, of course. I mean, everybody knows the story. How Jerico was a Westinghouse Lightning town and how little Joshua, using one 15 watt GE light bulb, brought down those walls. To quote a passage out of our history books:

Joshua fit de battle ob Jerico, Jerico, Jerico
Joshua fit de battle ob Jerico
An’ de walls come tumblin’down.

Joshua flashed de little ole GE bulb, GE bulb, GE bulb
Joshua flashed de little ole GE bulb
An' de walls come tumblin' down.

 

Anyway! Say what you want. GE is crap, and that's all they'll ever be. My uncle had a GE once. Two days and the thing burned out, or so he thought. He gets the chair over there to change it, and just as he touched it the dang thing came back on. Yeah, that's right loose filament, POS! One month later he's in the middle of something important, and wouldn't you know? Your precious GE goes "POP!", and leaves him hunting the TP in the dark.

I won't ever waste my money on that crap again. I got some heat vs. light output charts I made I'll have to post them. Shows just how superior Sylvania's bulbs are.

Bring it on little boys! I'll put my Sylvania's up against your GE's any. I'd say for pinks, but what would I do with that crap when I won???

 

So, name one (just one) battle that those wimpy Sylvania bulbs have won!

Also, I (along with tens of others) read the story a while back in National Enquirer about your uncle. For those who may have missed the article, it seems he was actually up on that chair with a length of rope in his hand -- and not to change the light bulb either. So, the heroic GE bulb, utilizing its little known artificial intelligence chip, flashed on and off and brought your suicidal relative to his senses. It was the Sylvania disinformation machine that put out that bogus story about the loose filament.

Anyway, let's all just try to get along. The important thing is that we are all light bulb enthusiasts and if we happen not to own the superior GE bulbs, it's really okay.

 

No, I can't just let it go and `get along` because we all like light, take this to the Sylvania message board if you want to sing their praises. I dang sure don't want to have to come on here, expecting to hear about GE and have to wade through post after post about Shi*-vania. This is getting ridiculous, and I refuse to post anymore until this stops being so crazy about the `other` light bulbs.

 

Ma-ma-ma-mama says Sylvania light bulbs are the best, and GE lightbulbs are the devil!

 

You must have misunderstood her. What she said is that she was bedeviled by a GE light bulb. And, anyone who has ventured even a sidelong glance at any GE bulb of more than 25 watts knows that unmistakable feeling inside that comes only from staring at the very best. Like my Harley bros say, "If I have to explain, you wouldn't understand."

(I think I'm starting to engage in what Raoul characterized as "thread drift." Better stop staring into the light.)

 

History of the Light Bulb



1809 - Humphry Davy, an English chemist, invented the first electric light. Davy connected two wires to a battery and attached a charcoal strip betwween the other ends of the wires. The charged carbon glowed making the first arc lamp.

1820 - Warren De la Rue enclosed a platinum coil in an evacuated tube and passed an electric current through it. His lamp design was worked but the cost of the precious metal platinum made this an impossible invention for wide-spread use.
1835 - James Bowman Lindsay demonstrated constant electric lighting system using a prototype lightbulb.
1850 - Edward Shepard invented an electrical incandescent arc lamp using a charcoal filament. Joseph Wilson Swan started working with carbonized paper filaments the same year.
1854 - Henricg Globel, a German watchmaker, invented the first true lightbulb. He used a carbonized bamboo filament placed inside a glass bulb.
1875 - Herman Sprengel invented the mercury vacuum pump making it possible to develop a practical electric light bulb. Making a really good vacuum inside the bulb possible.

1875 - Henry Woodward and Matthew Evans patented a lightbulb.

1878 - Sir Joseph Wilson Swan (1828-1914), an English physicist, was the first person to invent a practical and longer-lasting electic lightbulb (13.5 hours). Swan used a carbon fiber filament derived from cotton.
1879 - Thomas Alva Edison invented a carbon filament that burned for forty hours. Edison placed his filament in an oxygenless bulb. (Edison evolved his designs for the lightbulb based on the 1875 patent he purchased from inventors, Henry Woodward and Matthew Evans.)
1880 - Edison continued to improved his lightbulb until it could last for over 1200 hours using a bamboo-derived filament.
1903 - Willis Whitnew invented a filament that would not make the inside of a lightbulb turn dark. It was a metal-coated carbon filament (a predecessor to the tungsten filament).
1906 - The General Electric Company were the first to patent a method of making tungsten filaments for use in incandesent lightbulbs. The filaments were costly.
1910 - William David Coolidge (1873-1975) invented an improved method of making tungsten filaments. The tungsten filament outlasted all other types of filaments and Coolidge made the costs practical.
1925 - The first frosted lightbulbs were produced.
1991 - Philips invented a lightbulb that lasts 60,000 hours. The bulb uses magnetic induction.

 

You guys have way to much time on your hands
ROFLMFAO

 

As a former electrician I can honestly say that I have delt with all sorts of bulbs. I have changed out Slyvania, Westinghouse
GE, and other generic bulbs. It is my beleif that you will have to eventually change out all bulbs no matter the make or wattage
at on time or another. The one thing I think that everyone needs
to remember is that you will void your warranty for going with a aftermarket bulb. Yes Yes I know I have heard it a million times
my buddies wife has a set of headlights you wouldnt beleive,
but my wife gets upset every time I talk about getting her the
same mod

Ummmm...... where was I going with this................

Oh yeah you all suck

 

kobiashi--

Humphry Davy was a thief he stole the idea from John Smyth, who like Benjamin Franklin was flying a kite when he got struck by lightning. Davy saw how Smyth glowed when he was struck and turned all black and powdery afterwords and figured he must be made of the same stuff as the charcoal strip.