> Both Howard's and Bourne's posts had the
>potential to get lots of really diverse,
>fascinating answers and generate a lot of
>interesting discussion. But without the context
>of why people chose what they did, what they
>think of that, or any other type of conversation
>about their choice, it just seems to me that
>such threads don't add anything of use or
>interest, either about the person or the thing
>they've chosen.

Actually it was quite selfish of me to just pose the question on it's own - the whole thing was basically me trying to see if anyone else had the same reaction to the question as I did.

I thought that if I put the reasoning in with it, then it would skew people's responses.

I ended up posting the point a short time later because it did seem a little bit pointless just to put up the request "Name a Christmas movie", and I was afraid that it would look like I was posting a frivolous question just for the sake of it and that it would be deleted before I could come back and have a look again.

So you have my apologies for generating a somewhat incomplete set of forum posts.

Bo"for example, you never learned that Dixie cries at the end of Muppet Christmas Carol. Every time."urne