>It just isn't enough, given the gulfs between them, to level both down to consumables and say, they both did the music thing, which part of the cd rack shall we go to? don't you find this a little ironic? This is -precisely- what is enough, money is the levelling function, step into any HMV and you will have to do precisely this if you want to listen to either. How do you decide how to spend your money? And is there really as much difference between Ira and Simon A as there is between chalk and cheese? Isn't this a little wilfully, gesturally conciliatory? Why be so? %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%