Spaw: I think that the problem here is in the thread title since even Rick Fielding, in his first post CREATING the thread, crept away from Gospel-singin'. Perhaps the thread should have been entitled "Ed Sullivan, Control Freak" (which relates to Don Firth's story about the two World's Fairs).

That still means that the discussion about individuals' performances at the Fairs qualifies as thread creep, but perhaps in one of the earlier stages of Creepdom.