John Smyth <[log in to unmask]> writes in support of...

>...my point that intelligence is probably the only thing *not* at work
>when someone decides they love or hate CM.

John's right, but my point was only that CM is an acquired taste.  You
can get hooked on hookers or on coke, of either kind, withhout having to
be a genius.  But now that intelligence has blundered into this thread, I
do think it's more likely to play a role in acquisition of a taste for CM
than in the other cases cited, or, I daresay, in a great many others.  But
don't ask me to prove it.

Denis Fodor