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Originally Posted by Darren-UK
You had to grab a spare bulb and try each position in turn until you found the duff one
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... or discovered that more than one was duff.
Then someone came up with the bright idea of introducing a "fuse" bulb - simply one which ran hotter than the others and was identifiable as such. Spot the "fuses" in the selection below from my collection.
On the subject of santa head bulbs etc - we used to have a selection of santas, snowmen and the like (purchased, as I recall from Woolworths - now also sadly defunct). Over the years since they ceased to be available, they one by one got replaced by the standard oval-shaped bulbs as they blew. This is the only "novelty" bulb still in my possession:
