Mary Shafer wrote:

:On Sat, 02 Aug 2003 02:46:39 GMT, Fred J. McCall
wrote:
:
: David Casey wrote:
:
: :http://info.astrian.net/jargon/terms...win_s_Law.html
:
: One has to wonder how Mr Godwin's name got attached to this, since it
: was around long before he discovered the net.
:
:Are you sure you're thinking of the correct Mike Godwin? He, and his
:law, were around in about 1989.

Yes, but 'the law' was around before that. It was not at all uncommon
to see the first mention of Hitler or Nazis greeted with "Bzzzzt! I
win!" as early as 1985 or so. I couldn't put a date to it, but I
remember when Mike Godwin first posted. The whole "the first person
to mention the Nazis loses" thing was around before that.

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man persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore,
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