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Right. 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!

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Date: 2005-12-20 01:26 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] lee-chaos.livejournal.com
Ahhh, it's in a carrier bag... somewhere. it will be unearthed in the great spring clean of 2006 but might cause an avalanche to hunt for it now. it also features rog from leechWoman on dustbin & washing-machine and Mark Eris scratch mixing over the top, and goes on for about 30 minutes. I'm at the bar for the 2nd half of it...

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