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Original Usenet message from alt.ascii-art, 8 Dec 2005.
Re: "The Revenge of Rudolph"

Re: "The Revenge of Rudolph"

mik...@gmail.com wrote in news:1134021347.528348.250190
@g47g2000cwa.googlegroups.com:

> http://www.tuxedo.org/~esr/jargon/html/entry/Godwin's-Law.html
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>   (__.| `-'  `-'`-'   Godwin's Law prov.        `-'`-'  `-' |
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>       |   [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.       |
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Very astute. But who was Godwin? (Pardon my ignorance).

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