...or so John Wilkins tells me.
Heh.
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I bet we could find a few earlier examples. Hobbes' omnia contra omnes comes to mind.
Tennyson and Darwin knew each other, so it's obvious:
Tennyson to Darwin to Hitler.
Hmm, could there be a new game there similar to Bacon Numbers? Darwin/Hitler Numbers? DH Quotient?
There is only one jump needed to go fom Darwin to Hitler (apparently), so we could use this method as a measurement of numptyness - a low Darwin/Hitler number would be an indicator of heavy numptification.
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