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Date:      Tue, 16 May 2000 09:03:29 -0700
From:      W Gerald Hicks <jhix@mindspring.com>
Cc:        chat@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Why are people against GNU? WAS Re: 5.0 already?
Message-ID:  <39217151.2D64D573@mindspring.com>
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Johann Visagie wrote:
> 
> On Tue, May 16, 2000 at 07:28:45AM -0700, Jamie Bowden wrote:
> > On Tue, 16 May 2000, W Gerald Hicks wrote:
> >
> > :Hitler.  The Nazis.  Mussolini too.  Now, is this thread dead?
> >
> > Nowhere in Godwin's law is it stated that the reference of Nazism or
> > Hitler will kill a thred.  Godwin's merely states that if a thread goes on
> > long enough, chances of references to the above go to one.  There is a
> > corrollary which states that intentionally Godwinating a thread is doomed
> > to failure I believe.
> 
> Yes, it's known as Quirk's Exception.  See:
> 
>   http://www.killfile.org/~tskirvin/faqs/godwin.faq
> 

Rats!  :)


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