Read the fine print, Mr. Smith is certainly correct...

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Hey, anybody (besides me) following the world cup matches?

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Dustin Decker wrote:

> On Thu, 6 Jun 2002, DCT Jared Smith wrote:
> 
> 
>>"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."
>>
>>-Jared
>>
> 
> From: http://www.faqs.org/faqs/usenet/legends/godwin/
> 
> 6.  "Hitler!"  Ha!  The thread is over!
> 
> 	Nope, doesn't work that way.  Not only is it wrong to say that a
> thread is over when Godwin's Law is invoked anyway (Usenet threads
> virtually always outlive their usefulness), but long ago a corollary to
> the Law was proposed and accepted by Taki "Quirk" Kogama 
> (quirk at swcp.com):
> 
>  	Quirk's Exception: Intentional invocation of this so-called 
> 		     "Nazi Clause" is ineffectual.
> 	
> 	Sorry, folks.  Nice try, though.
> 
> 
> /me wanders off to do something completely worthless with his time...
> Dustin
> 
>