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BurtWorm Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Feb-12-09 02:02 PM
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Poll question: Are you high brow, middle brow or low brow?
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JVS Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Feb-12-09 02:03 PM
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1. Can I have some guidelines to help determine what I am?
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BurtWorm Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Feb-12-09 02:08 PM
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5. If you have to ask...
;-)

Seriously, I was hoping you'd make that determination yourself. Traditionally, high brow referred to someone who aspired to appreciate the very finest of arts. Low brow meant strictly interested in the most popular forms of art. Middlebrow took cues from arbiters of taste in the media as to what to read, listen to, see, etc.
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Fire Walk With Me Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Feb-12-09 02:04 PM
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2. Unibrow.
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SidneyCarton Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Feb-12-09 07:37 PM
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16. Me too!
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azmouse Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Feb-12-09 02:05 PM
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3. No brow.
I have to draw them on.
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BarenakedLady Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Feb-12-09 02:06 PM
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4. Between middle and low.
Edited on Thu Feb-12-09 02:06 PM by BarenakedLady
with the occasional spark of high.
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ReliantJ Donating Member (680 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Feb-12-09 07:43 PM
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18. Dammit
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GoddessOfGuinness Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Feb-12-09 03:56 PM
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6. I Brow
Edited on Thu Feb-12-09 04:03 PM by GoddessOfGuinness
I certainly don't take my cues from the media. But while I enjoy the fine arts, I also enjoy more popular forms of art. Sometimes the high-brow stuff isn't all it's cracked up to be. Sometimes the low-brow folk are as snooty as the high-brow folk they spurn.

I'd rather decide for myself.
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geardaddy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Feb-12-09 03:59 PM
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7. Meisterbräu
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Deja Q Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Feb-12-09 04:00 PM
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8. Bipolar. Either high or low. For Neo, there is no spoon. For me, there is no middle.
Except my belly, but nobody's perfect...
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rockymountaindem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Feb-12-09 04:19 PM
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9. I prefer not to divide brows along class lines
Quit being a bourgeois reactionary.
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FloridaJudy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Feb-12-09 04:28 PM
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10. Middle brow
I'm not quite smart enough for Tolstoy or Pynchon, but I'm way too smart for American Idol.
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edbermac Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Feb-12-09 04:28 PM
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11. All three.
I don't discriminate when it comes to taste.

I listen to Mozart, I listen to Howard Stern.

I read Shakespeare, I read MAD magazine.

I watch 2001: A Space Odyssey, I watch Porky's.

I'm a snob, I'm a slob. :7
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Lyric Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Feb-12-09 04:29 PM
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12. Mostly low-brow.
Although I have high-brow tendencies in odd places.
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mitchum Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Feb-12-09 04:43 PM
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13. I think that NewYorker subscription brands me as a middle brow
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Ikonoklast Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Feb-12-09 04:45 PM
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14. Well, I farted at the opera once.
Not sure where that falls on the spectrum.
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Fire Walk With Me Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Feb-12-09 07:42 PM
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17. It would depend upon whether you then roared with laughter about it for the rest of the show
and phoned friends to boast about it (also during the show).
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Doc_Technical Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Feb-12-09 06:44 PM
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15. Low brow.
I have this fantasy about standing on my chair at an opera
between songs yelling "FREEBIRD!!!"
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leftyclimber Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Feb-12-09 07:46 PM
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19. Plain old brow.
I run the gamut.
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EFerrari Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Feb-12-09 07:54 PM
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20. Serial browser?
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