And here's the famous anthropomorphism thread, AnnaS:

http://wordsmith.org/board/showflat.pl?Cat=&Board=words&Number=30178

It seems to me there was one other good discussion about fishing for a term for this after the anthropomorphism thread, but I can't place it...anynody?

Sorry about not remmebering your pathetic fallacy thread, Hyla...either I missed or it must have fallen through my seine of retention here (sigh).