I’ve got 600 regrets. Imagine I’ll accrue a lot more before I am dismissed.

When you say Tl;DR, are you referring to your piece, my comment or my fee note? 😉

Please assure Prince Prefab (I’m guessing he was the other party to the pub chat) that the CD collection and the LP collection used for my extensive research both include examples of “Sprout”.

TL;DR – CD cases are fatter than we thought.

Before launching into a detailed and evidence-based answer to KC’s delicious “music items per inch” pub theory/question, I would just like to say how much I enjoyed the “rich tapestry” piece, which most of us have ignored in these comments.

I absolutely loved the piece and chortled so much that Daisy asked what i was chortling about. When i showed her the piece, she chortled too and also said she loved it.

My father used that “rich tapestry of life” metaphor a lot; normally in situations where I did not appreciate being told that the thing I didn’t want to do or the setback that was vexing me was simply part of life’s rich tapestry. But I appreciate the guidance in retrospect and always think of my dad, fondly, when I hear the phrase.

Right, let’s get down to “CDs per inch” business. Your comment came at just the right time, KC, as I am visiting my music collection this morning – a rare visit in these unprecedented times.

I have 360 CDs, which would take up almost exactly 168 inches (14 feet) of end-to-end space if all placed end-to-end. That is just over 23 feet per 600 CDs. If we only take into account the contemporary music ones (some 140 are classical/baroque/medieval) then we are talking 220 CDs taking up 84 inches or 7 feet. That is still c19 feet for 600 such CDs.

But what about a collection that is mostly “singles and cardboard sleeves”, I hear you cry. Well, I can’t help you there with CDs, but my LP collection (almost all cardboard sleeves) comprises just under 650 LPs and it takes up 102 inches (eight-and-a-half feet), which is wicked close to “eight foot of LPs is approximately 600 of the darned things”.

Conclusion: your 8 foot of space per 600 music artefacts works for LPs, singles, single CDs and CDs in cardboard sleeves, but foes not work for CDs in plastic CD cases, which need two-and-a-half to three times as much space.

My fee note is in the post.

We did. An extraordinary development, we know.

My favourite part is Eckersley’s reaction.

https://twitter.com/leicsccc/status/1295668663266299904?s=20

You went to an actual pub?

We discussed this earlier in the actual pub and it resulted in a protracted and lively debate about “CDs per inch”.

So basically if you’ve got eight foot of CDs, how many is that?

You think it’s nowhere near 600 initially, but what about singles? And then factor in cardboard cases? Could be close.

Top drawer filth.

https://twitter.com/surreycricfan/status/1298299312456310784?s=21

I possibly do have 600 cricket-watching anecdotes in me, but Ogblog is only up to 280 pieces tagged cricket, which is a long way short of 600. But Jimmy is 17 years into his test cricket career, whereas I am only four-and-a-bit years into my Oglog career. I would hope to have reached 600 cricket-related Ogblog pieces by the year 2033, if I can keep my writing career (or even continue breathing) that long.

In terms of sporting numbers, I think the closest I have managed to 600 is a remarkable 533 at fridge ball one famous night in 1974:

http://ianlouisharris.com/1974/12/04/a-marathon-day-of-court-sport-fives-and-fridge-ball-4-december-1974/

But talking of numbers with sixes and zeros in them; I did manage to get thrashed 6-0, 6-0, 6-0, 6-1 at tennis this afternoon. By a 15 year old…who has apparently gone through some sort of incredible hulk transformation during lockdown, accentuated by a school kid’s availability to play most days since the Middlesex University real tennis court reopened. The pros assessment after witnessing some of the carnage: “you did well to get that one game”.