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According to Wikipedia (America's online reference for 750 years!) Mike Godwin coined this in 1990. Here's where I said it in 1989: One of these days Mike Godwin is going to say something original or funny and I plan to take credit for is as "Sexton's Law".Newsgroups: news.groups From: richard@gryphon.COM (Richard Sexton) Message-ID: <21000@gryphon.COM> Date: 16 Oct 89 17:48:06 GMT Local: Mon, Oct 16 1989 1:48 pm Subject: Re: .aquaria In article <1989Oct16.115545.12...@agate.berkeley.edu> gsmith@garnet.berkeley.edu (Gene W. Smith) writes: > People voted for Hitler as Chancellor too. A vote is not to >determine what is best, or what is right, but what is going to >happen. A winning vote is not evidence that the winning voters >were correct. You can tell when a USENET discussion is getting old when one of the participents drags out Hitler and the Nazis. See for yourself in google or read the what happened the day I met Godwin |
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