Five: one to handle the bulb and four to contemplate how David Sanborn would've done it.
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Three:
One to write the light bulb removal program,
one to write the light bulb insertion program, and
one to act as a light bulb administrator to make sure nobody else tries to change the light bulb at the same time.
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They had reservations.
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Big holes all over Australia!
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Because there's no one else to wag it for him.
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