At 04:32 PM 1/2/97 GMT, Brian Styles wrote:
 need for a calibration
>device
 
This reminds me of a little calibration chart that used to circulate in the
1960's and used E. Power Biggs and Virgil Fox for the purposes of calibration:
 
A Low Brow was someone who had never heard of either Biggsy or Virgil
A Low to Middling Brow was someone who liked Fox but had never heard of Biggsy
A Middle Brow was someone who liked both
A Middling to High Brow was someone who liked Biggsy but had never heard of
Virgil
A High Brow was someone who had never heard of either gentleman
 
In those days I must have been a Middling to High Brow, because I used to
like Biggsy and not Virgil; one's sensibilities change, however, and these
days I have come if anything to prefer Virgil.  I guess I must be on the way
down ...
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