::gasp:: My gawd! We've never heard of thread-jacking before! We are all poor little internet noobs whom have never seen the light of another forum. If you continue to speak to people in a condescending manner, the only jacking and rubbing you'll see is of this sort. Seriously. It's far ruder than a simple veering of the conversation, which is all that a thread jacking is. Do you do this in RL too? I can see someone at a party, "We're discussing football! No changing the conversation! It's rude!" In any case, my post probably won't be here tomorrow.... Jeremy the Moderator apparently subscribes to your stick in the mud approach. But, it was cathartic.