it's called godwin's law (aka the "hitler rule") and even tho he intentionally brought it up, you
fell for the bait so i say you lose... now lets get back to listening to spoon music and deleting
ebay postings...
-=dave
http://www.tuxedo.org/~esr/jargon/html/entry/Godwin's-Law.html
Godwin's Law prov.
[Usenet] "As a Usenet discussion grows longer, the probability of a comparison involving Nazis or
Hitler approaches one." There is a tradition in many groups that, once this occurs, that thread is
over, and whoever mentioned the Nazis has automatically lost whatever argument was in progress.
Godwin's Law thus practically guarantees the existence of an upper bound on thread length in those
groups. However there is also a widely- recognized codicil that any intentional triggering of
Godwin's Law in order to invoke its thread-ending effects will be unsuccessful.
----- Original Message -----
From: "ben gill" <gillette_foamy@yahoo.com>
To: <idm@hyperreal.org>
Sent: Sunday, January 05, 2003 9:02 PM
Subject: [idm] pdm
quoted 25 lines Can anyone take that seriously anymore? Don't let
> Can anyone take that seriously anymore? Don't let
> that misanthrope corrupt a concept that stretches back
> in time to the first biped. Or before.
>
>
> Ben
>
>
> --- seeklektek <eclectic@attbi.com> wrote:
> > Hitler.
> >
> >
> > .o0O}seeklektek{O0o.
> >
>
>
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