On 26 Oct 2006 at 16:40, Nick Arnett wrote: > On 10/26/06, Andrew Crystall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > > > Well done, you trumped yourself. I never said it, you did. People > > REALLY need to think before invoking Godwin's law. It also proves my > > point - Godwin's law is itself a paranoid conspiracy meme. (Right up > > there with "Won't someone think of the children".) > > > Hmmm. You'd have me believe that you've been immunized against satire > detection?
About the 1001th time you see Godwins Law gets invoked, it's no longer funny, it's a tired old conspiracy meme, misused as badly as rhe moral majority's "won't someone think of the children / for the children" meme. > See, I was making fun of your mention of the Holocaust, which has Nazi > associations (many references widely available). It was satire -- like > irony, but with the knob twisted toward the "fluff" setting. I probbaly get irony about toxins better when the house's contract holder's not going to try to poison me with an unknown insecticide. Litterally. > I'll just say that in the context of Bush's remarks yesterday, I don't find > the discovery of some corroded, decaying, non-working chemical weapons from Which were still functional as of 2004...the precursors can survive a LONG time. My real post-war fear, tbh, was that a bunch of coalition troops would discover an old active Sarin shell the hard way... Dawn Falcon _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
