saramcpherson:

(For those of you who haven’t yet experienced the magic of searching the Harper’s Index, it goes like this: Enter search term.  Get stats.)

• Chances that a harpist has back problems: 3 in 4
• Chances that a member of the thrash-metal band Anthrax lives with his parents: 2 in 5
• Number of the 12 employees at Hawaii’s last ukulele factory who are hearing-impaired: 5
• Pairs of jeans that Frank Sinatra has ever owned in his life: 0
• Number of CAT scans a Minneapolis radiologist performed last year on violins: 10 
• Number of Grateful Dead concerts attended by columnist Ann Coulter: 67
• Minimum number of songs sold on Apple’s online music store that consist entirely of silence: 291 (As of 2005)
• Percentage of Britons who cannot name the city that provides the setting for the musical Chicago: 65
• Chances that a hip-hop fan has had five or more sexual partners in the last five years, according to a U.K. study: 2 in 5.  Chance that a country-music fan has: 1 in 67

(all stats from Harper’s Index)

Note to self: less Neil Young, more Public Enemy.