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Old 10-01-2006, 05:53 AM   #49 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by Elphaba
Some other member suggested that we define a "blame it on Clinton" name that is the equivalent of a "Godwin". I assume Godwin overused the Hitler comparison. We now have a mod/member or two overusing the "Godwin" tag. Someone clever with a poll setup might choose to do this if we throw about a representative number of ideas. So if "Godwin" represents irrelevant comparisons to Hitler, what would be the appropriate comparison for Clinton? "Scaifed?"
We've already given this a name. shakran's Law. shakran was the first of us here to state as a law the tendency of any topic that looks bad for the right to inevitably end up with the phrase "Well, Clinton got a blow job."

Also, it's only called "a Godwin" as a derivative of "Godwin's Law". See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Godwin%27s_law
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