If you want X, you know where to find it (was Re: do...until wisdom needed...)

[Steve Holden]

"Aahz Maruch" <aahz at panix.com> wrote in message
news:9bj9fp$f64$1 at panix2.panix.com...
> In article <3ADCF9D4.CD1500E5 at alcyone.com>,
> Erik Max Francis  <max at alcyone.com> wrote:
> >Aahz Maruch wrote:
> >> In article <slrn9dooe0.cor.grey at teleute.dmiyu.org>,
> >> Steve Lamb <morpheus at here.not.there> wrote:
> >>>
> >>>     Yess, that was an attempt at Godwin.  No offense, Alex.  :)
> >>
> >> One of the corollaries to Godwin is that deliberately invoking Godwin
> >> doesn't count.
> >
> >Except that Godwin's law is just a statistical observation.  It's the
> >_convention_ that people often use that talks about threads ending;
> >Godwin's law proper says nothing at all about that.
>
> I don't understand why you're using "except"; that's the whole point of
> the corollary.

Nazi!

regards
 Steve