Tom,
You did not destroy the original subject,it is just a bunch of folks enjoying the subject and letting it drift a little bit.

Pretty much akin to folks sitting around the campfire/fishing pole or plinking with their BB guns.

There I got us back on the thread.

I remember as a kid,it was not at all uncommon to see kids riding their bicycles with their BB guns across the handle bars going down to the dump/landfill to plink at cans and bottles.

And this was right in sight of the Empire State Bldg that was across the Hudson River about 8 miles away!!

I watched the movie A Christmas Story (again) last night,brought back memories of many years ago.
Wayne