Cinderfella
The Geisha Boy
The Nutty Professor
Russell "the Professor" Johnson
Albert Einstein
Einstein (the dog from Back to the Future)
ben stein
r. l. stine
lynne arielle
Marian McPartland
Jimmy McPartland
Bix Beiderbecke
These companies are probably colluding to keep light bulbs crappy. It's illegal to fix prices but I don't think it's illegail to fix standards.
Anyway, light bulbs are going the way of buggy whips. The future is almost upon us, and it is LEDs.