# 25 or 6 to 4 hair-splitting

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/25-or-6-to-4-hair-splitting/37430>\
**Category:** Cecil's Columns/Staff Reports\
**Created:** [October 18, 2000, 5:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/25-or-6-to-4-hair-splitting/37430 "2000-10-18T17:36:31Z")\
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**Author:** ![Songbird](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/35a633/32.png) [@Songbird](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Songbird)\
**Post date:** [October 26, 2000, 1:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/25-or-6-to-4-hair-splitting/37430/21 "2000-10-26T01:03:06Z")

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> It makes as much sense as the other, with the disadvantage that it would get your song banned from radio play. So I think the songwriter made up a plausible lie and foisted it like a Firestone tire on an unwitting public.

Why would “25 or 6 to 4” be banned on any radio station? If “Start Me Up” by the Rolling Stones only got one little edit, I don’t see why Chicago would have been cut.

I’m not much of a conspiracy theorist – especially when it comes to musicians – and still prefer to believe Lamm.

Corporate America is a whole 'nother ball of wax.

SDStaffSongbird  
Straight Dope Science Advisory Board

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