>>>In our kitchen we have recessed indoor floodlights in the ceiling - they are florescents that look identical (we use them).
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>>I'm talking like the spots or halogens, in wee rings set into the ceiling. Imagine them with twisty fluorescents dangling from them :-)
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>They now make the CFLs (the twisty ones) encased in more standard packages. We have a lot of floodlight-style lights in our house and as they burn out, we're replacing them with floodlight-style CFLs.
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Aren't those going to be required in a year or two? No complaints from me based on what I have read about them and experienced personally so far.

Don't you think they need a new name besides CFLs? That just doesn't have a memorable ring to it. The way you put it, "the twisty ones," immediately identifies them in a way "CFLs" doesn't, at least not to me. The floor is now open for nominations <g>.