"I developed Godwin's Law of Nazi Analogies: As an online discussion grows longer, the probability of a comparison involving Nazis or Hitler approaches one." -- Mike Godwin (online counsel for the Electronic Frontier Foundation), here: http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/2.10/godwin.if_pr.html
"There is a tradition in many Usenet newsgroups that once such a comparison is made, the thread is over, and whoever mentioned the Nazis has automatically lost whatever argument was in progress." -- from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Godwin's_law (as it stood on 3-22-2005)