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Posted by dorayme on 10/08/05 05:35
> From: "Jonathan N. Little" <lws4art@centralva.net>
>
> dorayme wrote:
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>>> From: "Jonathan N. Little" <lws4art@centralva.net>
>>>
>>> JDS wrote:
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>>>
>>>> Didn't mean to scare you away!
>>>
>>> He hasn't gone anywhere. He and dorayme and Neredbojias are still
>>> toiling away at the 'thread that will never die' even after triggering
>>> Godwin's Law in the thread! ;-)
>>>
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>>
>> OK I'll bite, Jonathon. What is Godwin's law?
>
> It came up in a thread long ago, and I had to look it up. Basically that
> if a thread goes on long enough usually it will terminate when the
> subject of Hitler or Nazis is raised. Usually it¹s when someone is angry
> and signals that they have lost their position in the argument.
>
OK and I take it a bloke called Godwin first said this...
Anyway, I don't think this thread has that sort of character (an
argument). It has too many varied genes, the stuff of
immortality...
dorayme
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