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  • I wish I could get a transcript of that show it was hilarious and so so true. having said that – I feel another godwins law coming on …

    iTunes. Whose Tunes? 2004

  • A few weeks ago, the evil geniuses at goats.com started a story called "a dish best served delicious or, invoking godwins law".

    WIL WHEATON dot NET: 1.5: November 2004 Archives 2004

  • They are just against socialism for anyone who isn't already extremely wealthy. wwew Says: can there be a corollary law to godwins that as soon as you compare something to Stalin or the Soviet Union or stupidly call something communist / socialist, you can be laughed off the set or pages of the newspaper and you have automatically lost the argument?

    Think Progress 2009

  • They are just against socialism for anyone who isn't already extremely wealthy. wwew Says: can there be a corollary law to godwins that as soon as you compare something to Stalin or the Soviet Union or stupidly call something communist / socialist, you can be laughed off the set or pages of the newspaper and you have automatically lost the argument?

    Think Progress 2009

  • having said that – I feel another godwins law coming on …

    iTunes. Whose Tunes? 2004

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