In Reply to: RE: ECCENTRIC? posted by soulfood on February 15, 2012 at 14:34:15:
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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- I enjoy reading Sam, except for the travelogues. - mwhitmore 11:12:32 02/16/12 (5)
- RE: I enjoy reading Sam, except for the travelogues. - Bill the K 17:38:16 02/19/12 (0)
- RE: I enjoy reading Sam, except for the travelogues. - tmsorosk 04:50:27 02/17/12 (2)
- "We enjoy Sam's travelogues, culture and audio go well together." - Metralla 08:23:37 02/17/12 (1)
- RE: "We enjoy Sam's travelogues, culture and audio go well together." - joerosen1 01:23:50 04/18/12 (0)
- RE: I enjoy reading Sam, except for the travelogues. - thetubeguy1954 13:33:00 02/16/12 (0)