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ORDem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-25-08 08:33 PM
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So, is there now a corollary to Godwin's Law? If a primary goes on long enough
one of the candidates will eventually be compared to Tonya Harding?

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ThatBozGuy Donating Member (642 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-25-08 08:36 PM
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1. No its not length of the primary I believe its Ms Clintons knee capping.......
Edited on Tue Mar-25-08 08:38 PM by ThatBozGuy
of fellow democrats that makes it stick.

Besides black and red aren't complementary colors for her complection.

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elocs Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-25-08 08:49 PM
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2. Godwin's Law
From: http://jamesthornton.com/theory/theory?theory_id=13

"As a Usenet discussion grows longer, the probability of a comparison involving Nazis or Hitler approaches one." There is a tradition in many groups that, once this occurs, that thread is over, and whoever mentioned the Nazis has automatically lost whatever argument was in progress.
Godwin's Law thus practically guarantees the existence of an upper bound on thread length in those groups. However there is also a widely- recognized codicil that any intentional triggering of Godwin's Law in order to invoke its thread-ending effects will be unsuccessful.


I believe that Godwin's Law will one day come into effect when the comparison is made to George W Bush. Or, "he has his head up his Bush" or "he really Bushed that one up". Yes, one day Bush will be the 4 letter expletive with no redeeming social value.
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