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

Dave Hodgkinson davehodg at gmail.com
Wed Jan 30 23:22:01 GMT 2008


On 31 Jan 2008, at 00:05, Tara Andrews wrote:

> 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
>

Ouch. DrHyde, your riposte?

-- 
Dave Hodgkinson
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