Re: Godwin's Law (every day in every way I'm getting meta and meta)

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Subject: Re: Godwin's Law (every day in every way I'm getting meta and meta)
From: Tim Bradshaw <tfb@cley.com>
Date: Mon, 10 Jul 2000 13:45:04 -0400 (EDT)
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* Seth Gordon wrote:

> (with-pedantry
> I don't think a reference to "a white supremacist" is enough to trigger
> Godwin's Law -- you need to specifically mention, umm, you know, him, or,
> umm, you know, them.
> )

It's also OK to call them by name when discussing Godwin's law. This
is a fairly trivial consequence of Quirk's exception I think, although
I don't have my copy of `mathematical methods for usenet' to hand.

--tim

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