There are many variations on this joke, but here is the one that appeared in this column 26 years ago: program notes written by Carey Perloff of ACT.
“It would typically require at least five Oxford graduates to screw in a light bulb – four to determine its essence, and one to call the janitor. Assuming, of course, that you could find an Oxford grad who grasped the principles of electric illumination in the first place.”
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