The Tootsie pop manufacturers are aware of three studies that have been conducted to determine the answer to the BIG QUESTION. Each group contacted us to inform us of the results of their experiments:

A group of engineering students from Purdue University recorded that their licking machine, modeled after a human tongue, took an average of 364 licks to get to the center of a Tootsie Pop. They tried the same licking test on 20 volunteers and found that the average licks to the center were 252 licks.

A chemical engineering doctorate student from the University of Michigan recorded that his licking machine required an average of 411 licks per Tootsie Pop.

A group of students at Swathmore School used human lickers in a scientific experiment and determined it took an average of 144 licks to get to the center of a Tootsie Pop.

Based on the wide range of results from these scientific studies, it is clear that the world may never know how many licks it really takes to get to the Tootsie Roll center of a Tootsie Pop.

There are 500 million Twinkies produced every year.

That's 1,369,863 Twinkies every day.

Or 57,077 Twinkies every hour.

Or 951 Twinkies every minute.

Over 15 per second.

Probably close to 100 twinkies have been produced in the time it took you to read this.

That's 2,250 calories.

So in the time it took you to read this LJ, enough calories to make up a human being's entire day's worth of food has been made in Twinkie form.

Think about it.

It's scary.

A partial listing of my muic

Alanis Morisette- Feast on Scraps, Jagged Little Pill, Jagged Little Pill Acoustic, MTV Unplugged, So-Called Chaos, Supposed Former Infatuation Junkie, The Collection, Under Rug Swept

Avenue Q (the soundtrack)

Avril Lavigne- Let go, under my skin

Barenaked Ladies- Born on a Pirate Ship, Disc One: All Their Greatest Hits, Gordon, Maybe You Should Drive, Stunt, Everything to everyone, BLAM, BLAMen

Blind Guardian- A Night At The Opera, Battalions of Fear, Follow the Blind, Imaginations From The Other Side, Nightfall in Middle Earth, Somewhere Far Beyond, Tales from the Twilight World

Blue October- foiled

Buckcherry- 15

Children of Bodom- Are you dead yet?, hatebreeder

death- the sound of perseverance

Demons & Wizards- Demons & Wizards, Touched by the Crimson King

Dr. Demento- The Very Best of Dr. Demento

Don McLean- American Pie and Other Hits

Eiffel 65- Europop

Eminem- Curtain Call- The Hits

Evanescence- Fallen, the open door

Genesis- invisible touch

Green Day- American Idiot, Dookie, insomniac

Helloween- Better Than Raw, Keeper of the Seven Keys- Part I, Keeper of the Seven Keys- Part II, Keeper of the Seven Keys- The Legacy, Rabbit Don't Come Easy, The Dark Ride, Walls of Jericho

Iced Earth- Dark Saga, Something Wicked This Was Comes

iron maiden- the number of the beast, somewhere in time

Jason Mraz- Mr. A-Z, Waiting for my Rocket to Come

Jet- Get Born

Kelly Clarkson- Breakaway, my december

Keane- Hopes and Fears

The Killers- Hot Fuss

kt tunstall- eye to the telescope

lacuna coil- comalies, unleashed memories

Linkin Park- Hyrbid Theory (but there's one song missing that I hated and I don't think I bothered to keep a copy of the intact album anywhere), Meteroa, minutes to midnight

Madonna- the immaculate collection

Maroon 5- Songs About Jane, it won't be soon before long

megadeath- peace sells, but who's buying?

metallica- master of puppets, ride the lightening

Michelle Branch- Hotel Paper, The Spirit Room

my chemical romance- the black parade, life on the murder scene

nickleback- all the right reasons

Nightwish- Century Child, Once, Wishmaster

Nine inch nails- the downward spiral, the fragile (left), further down the spiral, pretty hate machine, with teeth

Panic! at the disco- a fever you can't sweat out

Pink- Missundaztood, I'm not dead

REM- Eponymous, Out of Time, The Best of REM In Time- 1988-2003

rodruigo y gabreila- Rodrigo y Gabriela

Say anything- ...is a real boy (discs 1 and 2)

Simon & Garfunkel- The Best of Simon and Garfunkel

Sinergy- Beware the Heavens, Suicide by my Side

slayer- reign in blood, south of heaven

Spamalot (the Monty Python Musical Soundtrack)

The Verve- Urban Hymns

three days grace- three days grace, one x

white skull- public glory, secret agony; tales from the north

wicked- original cast recording

Random Song Collections- ask me, too many to list all of them

Queen- We are the Champions, We Will Rock You, Bohemian Rhapsody

Sting- Desert Rose, 2 versions

Sir Mixalot- Baby Got Back

Chris daughtry- dead or alive

Finished the Dark Tower series last night. I won't spoil it for anyone, except to say: AAAGGGGGHHHHHHGGHAGHAAGHHAGAHHAAHGAGAGHAAHHHHHHHHH!!!!! :'(