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On 9/11/2016 11:36 AM, NEMO wrote:
> On Sun, 11 Sep 2016 08:15:38 -0700, "Colonel Edmund J. Burke"
> > wrote:
>
>> On 9/10/2016 9:48 PM, NEMO wrote:
>>> On Sat, 10 Sep 2016 11:43:55 -0700, "Colonel Edmund J. Burke"
>>> > wrote:
>>>
>>>> On 9/10/2016 11:31 AM, Taxed and Spent wrote:
>>>>> On 9/10/2016 10:15 AM, wrote:
>>>>>> I thought LED bulbs were supposed to last for many years. I put on in my
>>>>>> barn about 2 years ago. It's on all the time as a safety light. It only
>>>>>> uses about 5 watts so I'm not concerned about energy usage. (25W
>>>>>> equivlent).
>>>>>>
>>>>>> All of a sudden it has gotten real dim, and it flickers. I'm wondering
>>>>>> what caused that? I know it cant be fixed and needs to be replaced, but
>>>>>> I did not think the LED bulbs were supposed to fail for many years.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> When I shut it off, it stays lit for a few seconds after the switch is
>>>>>> OFF, so I imagine there is a capacitor in it, but obviously that cap is
>>>>>> working..... But it's less than half as bright as it used to be, and
>>>>>> flickers.
>>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> try it in a different socket.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Well, fellas...... This sad story sorta is like life for us old farts.
>>>> We last [hopefully] fer many years ourselves, ya know. Then, one day we
>>>> start gettin' a might tuckered out, if ya follow me. We start gittin'
>>>> dim ourselves, and in a way you could say we, too, start to flicker.
>>>> Eventually we just kinda wink out all together, ya know; and it's--like
>>>> they say--the Final Curtain. Folks left behind, they might cry a little
>>>> at first; but soon enough they forget about us. In a few more years
>>>> nobuddy even remembers us. Such is the temperance of existence.
>>>>
>>>> Amen (and boo hoo)
>>>
>>> May said demise be accelerated in yer case, KKKoloon!
>>>
>>
>> In the words of John Luc Picard, "Make it so!"
>
> In the words of François Hollande, "Mange merde!"
>

Quoting a faggot frog, Miss Stoopid?
Dumbass.

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