On Sat, Oct 4, 2008 at 6:19 AM, Gadi Evron <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sat, 4 Oct 2008, Noel Butler wrote: >> >> I'll post what I want, when I want and however I want, and no self >> appointed net nazi is going to tell me otherwise. > > Ah! You mentioned the Nazis. Now we know the thread is over. :) > > We should mention Nazis more often to end threads here. Godwin's law to the > rescue.
Deliberate invocation of Hitler does not invoke Godwin's law (courtesy Gym Quirk .. now that's a name from the past.. havent read usenet in about a decade. --srs http://www.faqs.org/faqs/usenet/legends/godwin/ > 6. "Hitler!" Ha! The thread is over! > > Nope, doesn't work that way. Not only is it wrong to say that a > thread is over when Godwin's Law is invoked anyway (Usenet threads > virtually always outlive their usefulness), but long ago a corollary to > the Law was proposed and accepted by Taki "Quirk" Kogama ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > > Quirk's Exception: Intentional invocation of this so-called > "Nazi Clause" is ineffectual. > > Sorry, folks. Nice try, though.
