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I enjoy reading Sam, except for the travelogues.

I have no doubt that Sam can hear and describe what he has heard. And I have defended him on another forum, when an SACD advocate said that we need to 'get rid of Sam' for prefering Red Book to DSD. I said (roughly) that Sam 'is, um...eccentric (I'm eccentric, you're crazy!). He also prefers 78s to LP, but you don't see Fremer putting out a fatwah on the guy.' A plea for a bit of tolerence. But I do think Sam relishes stirring up outrage--this is what I mean by a put-on. (Paragraph) As to the quoted sentence, it has stuck in my mind for many years but I don't have a source. Google yields a not-exactly-identical dialog from the movie 'Speed' (which I have not seen) and "there's an old joke that poor people are crazy while rich people are eccentric." So maybe I pieced it together. I'm pretty sure I didn't invent it.


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