Because they had so many knights.
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Because all his other wives support Hillary.
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6: 2 to screw in the bulb and 4 to testify that it was lit from the moment they began screwing.
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Bozo The Clown has real hair on his head.
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Two. One to assure the everything possible is being done while the other screws the bulb into the water faucet.
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One. He gives it to six Californians, thereby reducing the problem to an earlier joke...
In earlier work, Wiener [1] has shown that one mathematician can change a light bulb.
If k mathematicians can change a light bulb, and if one more simply watches them do it, then k+1 mathematicians will have changed the light bulb.
Therefore, by induction, for all n in the positive integers, n mathematicians can change a light bulb.
Bibliography:
[1] Wiener, Matthew P., <11485@ucbvax>, Re: YALBJ, 1986
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He was in shock for a week.
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