On Sunday 30 August 2009 07:18 pm, Dino K wrote:

> I'm gonna have to agree with Chris, we are getting way off topic.

Which is why I brought up Godwin's Law.

>From Wikipedia:

<snip>
There are many corollaries to Godwin's law, some considered more 
canonical (by being adopted by Godwin himself)[2] than others.[1] For 
example, there is a tradition in many newsgroups and other Internet 
discussion forums that once such a comparison is made, the thread is 
finished and whoever mentioned the Nazis has automatically "lost" 
whatever debate was in progress. This principle itself is frequently 
referred to as Godwin's Law. It is considered poor form to raise such a 
comparison arbitrarily with the motive of ending the thread. There is a 
widely recognized codicil that any such ulterior-motive invocation of 
Godwin's law will be unsuccessful (this is sometimes referred to as 
"Quirk's Exception").
</snip>

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