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[ocelot]

Most of you have heard of Godwin's Law: "As a Usenet discussion grows longer, the probability of a comparison involving Nazis or Hitler approaches one." There is a tradition in many groups that, once this occurs, that thread is over, and whoever mentioned the Nazis has automatically lost whatever argument was in progress. Godwin's Law thus practically guarantees the existence of an upper bound on thread length in those groups.

The parent corollary: as a discussion gets longer, the probability of one parent accusing another of spending too much time online and not enough time with their kids as a result of the discussion approaches one.

Edit: This has nothing to do with me and/or koyote, but with a post I saw elsewhere (and similar discussions I've seen elsewhere). I'm not linking to it because I feel no need to draw further drama to the post in question.