- If you don't know the term, Godwin's Law states that the likelihood that someone will be compared to Hitler approaches 100% as the length of an online argument increases. There is a Usenet tradition that the thread ends when this occurs - making it the internet equivalent of "jumping the shark", and thus naturally delimiting the maximum length of threads.
- When a TV program has "jumped the shark", it has done something to show that it can no longer sustain the elements that originally made it work, is grasping for gimmicks, and is ready to die. The term is said to derive from an episode of Happy Days, which "jumped the shark" when Fonzie jumped a shark while water skiing in his leather jacket.
Wednesday, June 30, 2004
Der Furor - Bush and Kerry already invoking Godwin's Law in their election advertising thread.
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