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#1 Feb 10 2004 at 7:35 PM Rating: Decent
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http://www.jargon.net/jargonfile/g/GodwinsLaw.html wrote:

Godwin's Law /prov./ [Usenet] "As a Usenet discussion grows longer, the probability of a comparison involving ***** or Hitler approaches one." There is a tradition in many groups that, once this occurs, that thread is over, and whoever mentioned the ***** 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.

I'd just like to thank the people who posted and defined this law for us.

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#2 Feb 11 2004 at 3:51 AM Rating: Decent
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Does that mean that you've already lost any argument on this thread, since you've mentioned them already?
#3 Feb 11 2004 at 11:16 AM Rating: Decent
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I haven't made a comparison involving ***** or Hitler so I think I'm okay for now.
#4 Feb 11 2004 at 4:38 PM Rating: Decent
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SOE Tech Support = ****'s

#5 Feb 11 2004 at 8:34 PM Rating: Decent
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It seems to me that in most cases, as the number of permutations increase, the possibility of anything happening will increase.... I mean, it can't get worse, can it?

If you cross the street twice, you probably aren't as likely to get hit as if you cross the street 200,000 times.

*shrug*
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