i reckon 5 is the optimum number of wives
because five rhymes with wive

this principle can be applied to anything with numbers in it. shoe = two. planet = eight (if you pronounce planet "planeyt", which is why the scientists were so hesitant to adopt it as a figure). door = four (referring to its status as a quadrilateral in this case)
( spacefish bong!, Fri 8 Aug 2008, 12:29, archived)