Todays apprentice:-)

[Dave Liquorice]

Woo hoo! Do I get a T-Shirt?

Ah, BTDTGTS...

[charles]

The glass envelope of a light "Bulb"? and, by extrapolation, the bulb (lamp) itself.

[gremlin_95]

I asked some "You get bulbs from the fu**in garden centre"

Apparently the correct term is lamp...

[Dave Liquorice]

A "lamp" or luminaire is the whole assembly of enclosure, refelectors, lenses etc. B-)

[ARW]

No. And not even five pounds or a free pencil :-)

Indeed. But the same apprentice was sent to a hospital to sort out some lights that were not working in main reception. His work sheet said "pressed the lightswitch and the lights turned on". So he is smarter than the hospitals estates department who did not know where the lightswitch was (it's on the wall, it looks like a lightswitch and it acts like a lightswitch).

[Tim Streater]

So it's pure affectation then.

[ARW]

:-)

And the earth core of a cable is a CPC.

[Graham.]

And a light fitting is a "Luminaire".

[Graham.]

How else can the luvvies spot an outsider?

[charles]

no - that's a lantern (or indeed luminaire)

[charles]

a luvie wouldn't know waht you were talking about - a techie would.

[Grimly Curmudgeon]

We'll have none of that Froggy nonsense here.

[<me9]

They can be well disguised. A club (techy) that I belong to hires a room in a centre for people with learning difficulties. One evening half the lights weren't working. We hunted everywhere for a switch.

A long time member arrived, and said switch was on a certain wall above the worktop. It was, a rocker switch, flush mounted (I mean *flush* mounted, plastered level with the *front* of the face plate) and painted over to match the wall. Now I know it's there I still have difficulty locating it. I suspect it was deliberately disguised.

[dennis]

Why didn't they just fit a key switch or put it in a lockable cabinet? Oh I recall, "learning difficulties" make such options too difficult for the staff.

[F Murtz]

Snot.