the guy the next dorm room over when i was a freshman was a classical music aficionado and hockey fan. i believe he was from michigan, if that matters. (he became a chemistry professor, i believe.) (no wait, i just looked him up, he is becoming a rhetorician instead!)

i was at a (philosophy) talk recently where the speaker made an offhand remark about some historical figure's apparently silly taste in opera. a number of the audience members CHORTLED at the folly of thinking whoever it was was better than some other composer. CHORTLED.