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Unwritten Rules

 Write them down
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There are too many 'unwritten' rules in this world.
Write them down I say. This will give the glut of lawyers on this planet something useful to do, rather than chasing ambulances.

1. Please don't post stupid, offensive or WIBNI ideas on the halfbakery.
2. Don't make eye contact with a 350lb guy with a beard if he's driving a battered 20-year-old pickup with a gunrack in the window and 4 pit bulls in the back
3. Don't sass your mother-in-law unless there is no-one who knows her within 1 statute mile of you at the time, including her.
4. ...

—UnaBubba, Jun 11 2001

how about this? http://www.jokesand....com/jokes/263.html
rules of life - for centauri [mihali, Jun 11 2001, last modified Oct 17 2004]

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       The point of unwritten rules is that they are either intuitively obvious (like your rule 2) or are intended to reinforce a clique (like masonic greetings). If you write them down, they're just ordinary rules with no special power but an unwritten rule is more devastating because the transgressor is not aware of the rule until it is too late ("actually quentin, it's a bit of an unwritten rule around here that you don't drop your pants until you've been formally introduced").
—gravelpit, Jun 11 2001
   

       Now that's better, UB.
—DrBob, Jun 11 2001
   

       Well hell gravelpit. If I'd known all o' that guff I'd'a steered right cleah of this whole idea.   

       The idea here is to entice you, the user, to post your dumbest unwritten rules to this page so we all might get a laugh out of it. But Noooo, you had to go and interpret me literally
—UnaBubba, Jun 11 2001
   

       Not telling!   

       You'll have to kill me first.
—UnaBubba, Jun 11 2001, last modified Jun 12 2001
   

       I put my unwritten rule here but it vanished in a poof of logic.
—angel, Jun 12 2001
   

       Hmm, so what you're saying here UnaBubba, is that there is an unwritten rule that certain ideas are not to be treated as actual proposals but as topics for discussion?
—gravelpit, Jun 12 2001
   

       If your girlfriend asks you if she is getting fat, or asks you if a particular outfit has the effect of making her look plump; immediately stub your toe on the nearest available thing and hope she forgets ever asking you.   

       We all know there is no right answer to this one.
—Spidergoat, Jun 12 2001
   

       Once read a list of Rules for life and how people act and so forth. The last one was: "You will forget all of these rules." I can't even find that in a Google search now.
—centauri, Jun 12 2001
   

       It's an uwritten rule in the Halfbakery that ideas are first parsed for the remotest plausability, the possibility of being baked or previously posted if they do, and then criticized accordingly. Only topics which are clearly gratuitous or identified as such are considered topics for discussion.   

       I hope that clears things up.
—whatzabuzz, Jun 12 2001
   

       Never ask a man a question during sex.
—Anne O'Tate, Jun 12 2001
   

       Unwritten rules:   

       1,   

       2,   

       3,   

       and not forgeting.... 4,
—solomungus, Jun 12 2001
   

       And similarly for those who think their disapproval matters. There's an unwritten rule that you shouldn't pick on people's taste, or lack thereof, unless you *know* they've been apprised of their shortcomings and they understand the need to lift their game.   

       Of course, there are always rude mongrels like me who will ignore such unwritten rules.
—UnaBubba, Jun 12 2001
   

       Mephista, Peter was quoting it for centauri, who had lost it. Peter would be more likely to quote something like "Chicken Beak Collecting... Good For Those Without A Soul"
—UnaBubba, Oct 29 2001
   

       Serious swisscheesing.   

       I think there should be an unwritten rule that you don't actually delete your account. Rather, you just change the password to gobbledygook, without looking.
—UnaBubba, Feb 26 2003
   


 

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