If you want to get all abusive about it, feel free.

Who is getting abusive and how?

And if accuracy is important it also happens to be a fact that, before Mike Godwin in 1990, a certain Theophilus Goodwin, Woodworker and collector or interesting bottletops, from Little Hulton near Manchester, postulated that if anyone ever mentioned the Germans on a thread everyone turned into Basil Fawlty and the thread died. Now this, as far as I remember, was back in 1987 and pre-dates Godwin by some time. Ever since then it has been refered to as Goodwins Law. Now, unless you happened to be in the same pub at the same time you would not have known this. So I forgive you. I suspect that Mike Godwin was sat in the corner with half a mild and a packet of prawn cocktail crisps when he stole the idea.

Cheers

DtG