If General Electric sells its lighting division, it will ruin a time honored childhood tradition. You might remember the trick from your youth. You’d ask the unsuspecting to clasp their hands above their heads, forming a circle with their arms. Then you’d ask them to attempt to spell the word image and say lightbulb afterwards.
The result was someone whose arms formed a lightbulb shape above their head saying, “I M A G E Lightbulb.” Of course, this sounds exactly like “I am a G.E. lightbulb.”
In short, GE’s about to take a little bit of laughter away from children across America.
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Carney. You’ve finally lost your mind.
Yup, Schizo for sure.
Lightbulbs are the new rice.
Lightbulbs need to combine with children to survive
Lighten up (pun intended). Carney’s not schizo at all. You first two commenters are spoil sports. Oh – or maybe you’re the ones who were laughed at when you couldn’t spell image, or didn’t get the trick. Bad childhood memories of being taunted by your smarter friends. That’s it. Kind of sour grapes.
Did I miss something? Didn’t grow up here and am unaccustomed to this “tradition” ….my life could have turned out very differently… may quickly try this trick in the office now before GE sells it…
Stories like this really should be reserved for the short bus alumni reunion weekends.
Wow. Cranky lot for a Friday.
Carney, you should leave the humor to Bess.
owah
tahgoo
siam……..or knock knock, who’s there, pileup
Awww leave Carney alone!!
Knock Knock?
Who’s there?
Smell mop.
Smell mop who?
Hahahahahahahah
@11:59 – It’s better if you don’t text-laugh (i.e. lol, hahaha) at your own jokes.
I preferred asking girls if they could touch their elbows to their shoulder blades. (try it, bess)
Who wants a drink tonight.
NYC.
-mrp
Who vants a moustache ride?
Carney,
I snickered.
I laffed.
I guffawed.
To quote Carlin,
“George is a neverending word.
G-E
O-R
G-E”
thanks
@12:12pm – Giambino?
Carney,
I snickered.
I laffed.
I guffawed.
To quote Carlin,
“George is a neverending word.
G-E
O-R
G-E”
thanks
Carney,
I snickered.
I laffed.
I guffawed.
To quote Carlin,
“George is a neverending word.
G-E
O-R
G-E”
thanks
Carney,
I snickered.
I laffed.
I guffawed.
To quote Carlin,
“George is a neverending word.
G-E
O-R
G-E”
thanks
I didn’t do that as a kid. I guess I just missed out as a child. *sigh*
Where I grew up you coaxed other kids to hook their index fingers into the sides of their mouth, pull their mouths wide and try to say “I was born on a pirate ship.”
The sad thing is I just tried to do this at my desk.
what happened to the good ol’ pull my finger?
-damnslowbrowser-
sorry
Didn’t Bill O’Reilly start the smears of GE because O’Reilly hates MSNBC’s Keith Olbermann? GE owns NBC. O’Reilly has accused GE and NBC of being for the terrorists.
One thing is for sure. Olbermann has succeeded where many have failed: He has caused O’Reilly to go nuts on the air!
@ Mr Pink
Make it so.
What’d you have in mind?
Knock knock!
Who’s there?
Babs’ uvula.
Babs’ uvula who?
I don’t know, Babs.
Anal_yst-
I don’t know where the DB ‘in crowd’ hangs out at, any suggestions?
-mrp
kids who did that were dorks anyway…
GE Finance cocked up the works so now GE has to sell the real assets to shore things up.
I know when I was a kid the ‘in thing’ was to get someone to use their index fingers to pull their mouths wide and say “I’m a banker”. How apt
@ 11:53 – go ahead. Live. Try it now! Ask someone in your office to do it. Silliness is allowed on a Friday afternoon. Let us all know how it turns out.
I bet Carney’s never done an atomic situp. Does anyone want to see Carney do an atomic situp?
Guest 3:47: Keep your stuff in your pants. This is a post about childhood.