Better than spending the day blogging on a "post and run" thread (although there isn't the kind of bloody infighting that a troll might have hoped for). And this thread hasn't been a total washout. We've learned about Hitchcock, Dali, and Theremins today.
You said that so well that I had to quote most of it.
You also made it clear that throll threads would be a lot more fun if they went the sort of direction you describe and turned into interesting intellectual discussion rather than flame baiting.