GODWIN'S LAW INVOKED. THREAD OVER - Re: Most Perl 6 will look like Perl 5

[Tara Andrews]

On Jan 30, 2008 10:54 PM, Dave Hodgkinson <davehodg at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On 30 Jan 2008, at 23:37, Randy J. Ray wrote:
>
> > Dave Hodgkinson wrote:
> >>
> >> On 30 Jan 2008, at 17:57, Martin A. Brooks wrote:
> >>
> >>> jesse wrote:
> >>>> HITLER HITLER HITLER.
> >>>
> >>> Quirk's exception.
> >>>
> >>
> >> Picadilly Circus.
> >
> > Cockfoster's.
> >
> > (My personal favorite tube station name, being that I'm an American
> > with an
> > 8-year-old's sense of humor...)
>
> Sadly, you've played yourself into a corner. MC in 17.

No, the revised 1993 rules (15b, brought in after too many games were
ended this way when Americans joined in) allowed for an escape to this
play, as long as the American in question used the errant apostrophe
and one of the next three plays is

Hornchurch

-tara