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Have you any idea how many children it takes to turn off one light in the kitchen Three. It takes one to say What light and two more to say I didn't turn it on.
Have you any idea how many children it takes to turn off one light in the kitchen Three. It takes one to say What light and two more to say I didn't turn it on.
Approximate author period: c. 1961 AD · modern
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- Erma Bombeck
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- Approximate author period: c. 1961 AD · modern
Approximate author-period anchor from life dates 1927 to 1996; Wikidata Q455968, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q455968 (accessed 2026-10-08). Not a quotation composition date.
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