Posted by Blinky the Shark on 10/08/05 08:56

dorayme wrote:
>> From: "Jonathan N. Little" <lws4art@centralva.net>
>>
>> dorayme wrote:
>>
>>>> From: "Jonathan N. Little" <lws4art@centralva.net>
>>>>
>>>> JDS wrote:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>> 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! ;-)
>>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> 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...

The law as she be stated:

http://catb.org/~esr/jargon/html/G/Godwins-Law.html


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