Yesterday morning Ken Bruce spoke to a listener on Greatest Tits Radio who had been to see Mamma Mia The Musical fifty-six times. That stopped me from doing whatever it was I was doing at the time, and put a pause on life in general while I processed that piece of information. Fifty-six times. I’m not being critical of that listener, but after digesting that information I did a few sums. Assuming an average theatre ticket price of \u00a387.75 (yes, I worked it out), that would be a total of \u00a34,914. And with a notified duration of 2h35m per performance, that’s a total of 144.48 hours spent watching the show. And that’s an average cost per hour of \u00a334. And that got me thinking.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
If I was so minded, what could I spend \u00a334\/hour on that I wanted to do? I could get my private pilot’s licence at \u00a3250\/hour but I don’t want to do that. I could fly to Vietnam (and back) for much less than \u00a334\/hour and that’s a possibility. Ooh, the bin men have just been.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Anyway.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Then I started wondering what books and\/or films have I seen multiple times, where that multiple might approach fifty-six. In all honesty, I can’t get close. I’ve probably seen Groundhog Day less than fifteen times. I’ve read Tom Sawyer ten times, and Huckleberry Finn eight times. Tom Sharpe’s Wilt about three times, Indecent Exposure five times, Riotous Assembly (a very poor relation to Indecent Exposure) three times. Heinlein’s Starship Trooper maybe eight or nine times. Time Enough For Love maybe ten times.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
I’m going to put a pin in this one and come back to it if I think of anything I’ve read\/watched greater than twenty times.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
What about you?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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