JR - I think you are being a bit silly to be honest. It ooks like you are the only one that doesn't care. A whole lot of people do care and replied to the email. Why are you trying to spoil it for people? If you don't care then fair enough. I don't care about some things. I usually find the delete key is the best thing for that rather than interupt an interesting topic that many have enjoyed.
I for one and I'm sure many agree, that I have enjoyed reading the wide variation of posters that people consider to be their Gem! It bring another perspective to the hobby rather than reading the same old thing every day. I'm not trying to tell you what your opinions should be, but to say who cares in a reply just shows a lack of Intelligence not Interest. (I'm not meaning that horrible way, I'm just trying to point out how it looks) Regards Andy ----Original Message Follows---- From: JR <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Reply-To: JR <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [MOPO] Who Cares About Your First Poster?? Date: Thu, 2 Feb 2006 13:09:43 -0500 Scott, Why are you surprised at me? I said that if what one really wanted was to ask people about was how they got into poster collecting, why not ask *that* question, is all. How people got into the hobby is an interesting subject -- and that's what a lot of people have gone on to talk about in the process of revealing what their first poster was. But just asking for a people to list what their first poster was -- which was what the question asked -- didn't strike me as being particularly interesting. If the question had been framed as "how did you start collecting movie posters?" my response would have been completely different... in fact, I would have told my "how I got into this" story (again). Perhaps I didn't read between the lines of the original question. I dunno. I do think there is a danger to these kind of "polling" questions if they start coming fast and furious. You can end up with lots of people jumping on the bandwagon, each one trying to come up with their own "What is ..." or "What was..." polling question and end up with bunches of replies on such deep topics as "What is your favorite Madonna video?" etc. But a question like, "how did you start collecting movie posters?" would be just fine with me. I too have enjoyed the responses from people who have used the "first poster" question as a spring board to actually tell us their how-I-got-into-this stories. -- JR ----- Original Message ----- From: "Scott Burns" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Thursday, February 02, 2006 12:17 Subject: [MOPO] Who Cares About Your First Poster?? > Actually I've enjoyed reading the replies to this question. Sure beats an > endless parade of eBay announcements (no offense meant to you eBay'ers!). > > Since many of us in this community are "aging baby-boomers" (don't you just > hate that description?) learning about everyone's "first poster" takes me > back to a different place and time--One with a lot less stress and much > lower poster prices. :) This "first poster" question does also open up the > discussion about how you got into collecting, even if its not overtly > stated--so what's wrong with that? > > I'm surprised at you, JR. :) > > Now let's return to those wonderful eBay ads.... > > Scott > MoPo "Aging Baby-Boomer" List Owner > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: MoPo List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of JR > > Sent: Thursday, February 02, 2006 12:12 AM > > Subject: Re: [MOPO] What was your very first poster? > > > > > > A lot of leading theme questions lately. Is it a virus or what? While some > > theme questions can bear interesting fruit, I'm not quite sure > > why anyone's > > first poster would be of much interest to anyone else... unless > > one is looking > > to elicit stories about how people got into collecting movie > > posters in the > > first place. In which case, why not ask that question? > > > > -- JR > > Visit the MoPo Mailing List Web Site at www.filmfan.com > ___________________________________________________________________ > How to UNSUBSCRIBE from the MoPo Mailing List > > Send a message addressed to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > In the BODY of your message type: SIGNOFF MOPO-L > > The author of this message is solely responsible for its content. > > > Visit the MoPo Mailing List Web Site at www.filmfan.com ___________________________________________________________________ How to UNSUBSCRIBE from the MoPo Mailing List Send a message addressed to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] In the BODY of your message type: SIGNOFF MOPO-L The author of this message is solely responsible for its content. Visit the MoPo Mailing List Web Site at www.filmfan.com ___________________________________________________________________ How to UNSUBSCRIBE from the MoPo Mailing List Send a message addressed to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] In the BODY of your message type: SIGNOFF MOPO-L The author of this message is solely responsible for its content.
