At 11:02 AM 3/1/01 +0000, Ken Brown wrote:
Reese wrote:
I don't think Godwin would agree. Godwin's Law is a natural law of Usenet named after Mike Godwin (godwin@eff.org) concerning Usenet "discussions". It reads, according to the Jargon File: As a Usenet discussion grows longer, the probability of a comparison involving Nazis or Hitler approaches one.
Of course, as any text grows longer the probability that it contains any other text approaches one... just more or less slowly. Godwin's law needs some quantification.
Perhaps there are simply more National Socialists out there than recognize that fact. ........ A sociologist was interviewing a southern farmer: Why do you think the murder rate is higher in the south? I guess more southerners need killin'.