Of course! Solongleonard, our local race-horse owner, certainly ought to be familiar with that use of the term, as it is the standard point at which the animals are measured for height (likewise for dogs).
I like to think of forum discussions as being like real conversations -- the subject often strays to new topics, related or otherwise, sometimes returning to the original one, sometimes not. Mind you, not all persons involved in any given conversation (or forum thread) may welcome such deviations, but, as with most things in life, you can't always get what you want. However, we may not always know what we want (although we may know what we don't want), and thus the unexpected can actually be rather enjoyable and may even become the "wanted".
