[nascarnation]

if all the free discs and CDs that AOL has distributed were stacked end-to-end, I wonder how many times it would circle the globe?

[Xenalyte]

Dude, that is a wonderful and profound question. With your permission, I will submit it to Cecil Adams, world-class know-it-all and proprietor of The Straight Dope. I will promptly report any answer I might receive.

[Xenalyte]

And for some reason, your question brings to mind one of the quips uttered by the inimitable Dorothy Parker, may God rest her incandescently wicked soul: "If all the girls at Yale prom were laid end to end, I wouldn't be at all surprised."

[USFRIENDINVICTORIA]

The answer seems to be twice.

You piqued my curiosity, so I Googled "AOL free disks circle the globe" and got 163,000 hits. Here's an excerpt from a Californian "greenie" site:

• If the more than 400 million AOL ‘junk disc’ packages were laid end to end, they would circle the globe…twice!

http://www.democracyinaction.org/dia/organizationsORG/CAW/campaign.jsp?campaign_KEY=1564

[banjo joe]

if all the free discs and CDs that AOL has distributed were stacked end-to-end, I wonder how many times it would circle the globe?

They make excellent pistol targets.