"Horn, John" wrote:
> <rant mode>
> Does anyone else *HATE* these sorts of discussions as much as I do? They
> are so unbelievably pointless! I've never understood why people engage in
> these discussions. After years of enduring endless threads who would would
> be the best Gandalf on rec.arts.books.tolkien, I thought they were over with
> the release of the movies. But no! Now we have to discuss who would be the
> best Turin or Feanor from the Silmarillion! Arrgghhh! I've even seen a
> thread on who should play Bruce Springsteen if they were to make a TV movie
> of his live on rec.arts.music.springsteen! I mean, what that????
> </rant mode>
>
> Sorry. I just had to get that out of my system. Again, nothing personal,
> Jon. Really. Go ahead and discuss, I'll just politely remain quiet and
> delete those messages without reading them...
Well, that's one way that some people have fun. I usually can't come up
with anything really good on these, so I stay out of it, and sometimes I
don't even know who a poster is talking about. So it's kinda eh in my
book, but if a group of people want to amuse themselves in this manner,
I'm not going to complain.
But, I must also point out, this is the only list I'm currently
subscribed to where this sort of thing has happened since I first
subscribed, so I'm not "casting fatigued" the way you seem to be. :)
Julia
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