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miss_squiddyRight. So there are 168 hours in a week. If you minus the hours spent at work (38) and the time spent sleeping (56), that leaves 74 hours of 'free' time which could feasibly be filled with audio-visual stimulation to one degree or another.
I estimate that Slade's Merry Christmas Everybody must be played on average once every 2 hours throughout November and once an hour throughout December.[1]
Thats... (74*4=148)+(74*4*2=296) ...444 plays per year.
Given that Merry Christmas Everybody was released in 1973 and that I wasn't born until 1978, I estimate that I have heard that blinking song 11,988 times in my life.[2]
No wonder I'm sick of it.
[1] ...Within range of me. And I'm counting hearing any part of the song as a 'play'. So that includes annoying repetitive radio jingles, adverts for compilation CDs, 100 Greatest Christmassy Moments programmes and shopping trips where every single shop is playing dodgy Christmas tunes. So no, I wouldn't expect to hear Noddy Holder crowing 'Iiiiit's Chriiiistmas!' on the hour every hour like some demented cuckoo clock, but I reckon all the airplay he takes up at the end of the month must even things up...
[2] Yeah, I know my working out is shoddy. Dammit Jim - I'm a historian, not a mathematician!
I estimate that Slade's Merry Christmas Everybody must be played on average once every 2 hours throughout November and once an hour throughout December.[1]
Thats... (74*4=148)+(74*4*2=296) ...444 plays per year.
Given that Merry Christmas Everybody was released in 1973 and that I wasn't born until 1978, I estimate that I have heard that blinking song 11,988 times in my life.[2]
No wonder I'm sick of it.
[1] ...Within range of me. And I'm counting hearing any part of the song as a 'play'. So that includes annoying repetitive radio jingles, adverts for compilation CDs, 100 Greatest Christmassy Moments programmes and shopping trips where every single shop is playing dodgy Christmas tunes. So no, I wouldn't expect to hear Noddy Holder crowing 'Iiiiit's Chriiiistmas!' on the hour every hour like some demented cuckoo clock, but I reckon all the airplay he takes up at the end of the month must even things up...
[2] Yeah, I know my working out is shoddy. Dammit Jim - I'm a historian, not a mathematician!
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Date: 2005-12-20 01:17 am (UTC)gateway?
Date: 2005-12-20 01:37 am (UTC)Re: gateway?
Date: 2005-12-20 02:56 am (UTC)iiiiiiiiiit's christmas
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Date: 2005-12-20 07:16 am (UTC)If only I could, dammit...
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Date: 2005-12-20 12:56 pm (UTC)*Bangs head repeatedly on desk*
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Date: 2005-12-20 01:42 pm (UTC)and i gotta hear the chaos engine version!!!!!
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Date: 2005-12-20 01:54 pm (UTC)"I'll duck and cover
with my yuletide lover
underneath that mushroom cloud"
Ace.