Three - one to cast the bulb into the outer darkness, and two to catch it when it falls.
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It takes them a long time to swallow their pride.
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Two. One to assume the ladder and one to change the bulb.
A': None. If the government would just leave it alone, it would screw itself in.
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Five. Four to decide which way the bulb ought to turn, and . . .
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