On Wed, 2006-01-11 at 15:29 -0800, Eric Bliss wrote:
> On Wednesday 11 January 2006 03:06 pm, Iain Buchanan wrote:
> > > > I think once we've got to the stage of UK (and AU) vs US spelling, I can
> > > > invoke "Godwin's Law"[1] hereby ending the discussion completely and
> > > > immediately ;)
> > > >
> > > > [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Godwin's_law
> > >
> >
> > I took the spelling of words as being a "good enough" reason to invoke
> > Godwin's Law, and hence posted it "after the comparison occurred". I
> > did not, in fact, raise the comparison of iou to ou just to raise
> > Godwin's Law, and therefore my invocation should not be unsuccessful.
> >
>
> Except Godwin's Law needs references to either Hitler or the Nazis
yeah, I took a very loose interpretation, and made the reference to
spelling a Close Enough hit.
> in general
> to be invoked, and neither of those topics have been covered yet in this
> thread, you jack-booted, goose-stepping SS thug!!! :-)
*lol* thanks for the laugh.
> There. NOW you can invoke Godwin's Law. Although, to actually give this
> post
> SOME relevance to the original thread, will using Saviour Linux on your
> computer assure it of going to Electronic Heaven when it finally dies???
only if your computer accepts it's operating system (saviour linux) as
the only way ;)
> 0:-)
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