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  • @[email protected]
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    2811 months ago

    I just found out that my mother has 6 or 7 gigantic moving boxes full of incandescent bulbs in her self storage container.

    She tells me they will be needed once the led bulb conspiracy fails. And that they will be worth a lot of money, enough to pay for her retirement.

    I can’t even

    • @can
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      1111 months ago

      Wow, I’m sorry. What are her thoughts on flatscreens?

    • mrbubblesort
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      511 months ago

      “Oh, is that so mom? In that case I’d be happy to take over that pesky 401k from you. It must be so annoying managing it anyways now that you have the bulbs, right?”