# Well I never! Rules for living... **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [October 19, 2003, 6:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/well-i-never-rules-for-living/208392 "2003-10-19T18:05:31Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Gyrate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gyrate/32/3588_2.png) [@Gyrate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gyrate)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2003, 1:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/well-i-never-rules-for-living/208392/41 "2003-10-20T13:27:17Z")
1. **Never** look at **Tir** after her 7th pint. It only encourages her. ---
**Author:** ![Angua](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/8baadc/32.png) [@Angua](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Angua)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2003, 1:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/well-i-never-rules-for-living/208392/42 "2003-10-20T13:45:00Z")
1. Never try and hold a coherent conversation after 7 pints. ---
**Author:** ![jjimm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba8739/32.png) [@jjimm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jjimm)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2003, 1:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/well-i-never-rules-for-living/208392/43 "2003-10-20T13:46:12Z")
1. Never try to add to nubmered lishts after sheven pintsh. ---
**Author:** ![Angua](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/8baadc/32.png) [@Angua](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Angua)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2003, 1:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/well-i-never-rules-for-living/208392/44 "2003-10-20T13:51:54Z")
1. Never forget that after 7 pints you are in fact witty, charming, and incredibly sexy. ---
**Author:** ![Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bosda_di_chi_of_tricor/32/16845_2.png) [@Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosda_Di_Chi_of_Tricor)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2003, 2:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/well-i-never-rules-for-living/208392/45 "2003-10-20T14:10:33Z")
1. Don’t cross the streams, Venkman. 2. If your partner, Bud Abbot, wants you to go into the Castle where you saw Dracula and Frankenstein earlier tonight, _leave_. Abbot will go in alone, & you’ll get a _new_ partner! ---
**Author:** ![Tir\_Tinuviel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/bc79bd/32.png) [@Tir\_Tinuviel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tir_Tinuviel)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2003, 2:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/well-i-never-rules-for-living/208392/46 "2003-10-20T14:11:09Z")
**68. Never** start a thread like this cos smelly people whos mothers dress them funny try to make jokes about you… 😛 ---
**Author:** ![Gartog](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/22d042/32.png) [@Gartog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gartog)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2003, 2:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/well-i-never-rules-for-living/208392/47 "2003-10-20T14:14:02Z")
1. And so is everbody else. And suddenly oddly attractive. ---
**Author:** ![Angua](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/8baadc/32.png) [@Angua](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Angua)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2003, 2:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/well-i-never-rules-for-living/208392/48 "2003-10-20T14:18:23Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Tir Tinuviel \* > \*\ ***68. Never** start a thread like this cos smelly people whos mothers dress them funny try to make jokes about you… 😛 \*\* Aaaw… Poor **Tir**. Its OK, **Gyrate** can’t help it. He makes fun of everybody. 1. No comment 😉 2. After the 7th pint, anything you do is erased from everyone’s memory banks. 😃 3. Never let someone who’s had 7 pints try and photograph you. ---
**Author:** ![Tir\_Tinuviel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/bc79bd/32.png) [@Tir\_Tinuviel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tir_Tinuviel)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2003, 2:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/well-i-never-rules-for-living/208392/49 "2003-10-20T14:28:19Z")
**72. Never** play a game which should be retitled “Stoopid Dumb-ass Addictive Card Game That I Cant Win At But Have To Keep Trying Anyway Just In Case And If On The Off-Chance I Do I Still Have To Have Another Go To Make SUre” ---
**Author:** ![SciFiSam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/47e85d/32.png) [@SciFiSam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SciFiSam)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2003, 2:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/well-i-never-rules-for-living/208392/50 "2003-10-20T14:29:20Z")
1. Never pay for all seven pints yourself. ---
**Author:** ![SciFiSam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/47e85d/32.png) [@SciFiSam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SciFiSam)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2003, 2:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/well-i-never-rules-for-living/208392/51 "2003-10-20T14:36:04Z")
1. Never pay for all seven pints yourself. ---
**Author:** ![Angua](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/8baadc/32.png) [@Angua](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Angua)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2003, 2:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/well-i-never-rules-for-living/208392/52 "2003-10-20T14:37:07Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Tir Tinuviel \* > \*\ ***72. Never** play a game which should be retitled “Stoopid Dumb-ass Addictive Card Game That I Cant Win At But Have To Keep Trying Anyway Just In Case And If On The Off-Chance I Do I Still Have To Have Another Go To Make SUre” \*\* Playing Solitaire? 1. Never agree to _anything_ after seven pints. ---
**Author:** ![SciFiSam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/47e85d/32.png) [@SciFiSam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SciFiSam)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2003, 2:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/well-i-never-rules-for-living/208392/53 "2003-10-20T14:48:52Z")
1. Never pay for all seven pints yourself. ---
**Author:** ![AskNott](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/asknott/32/5790_2.png) [@AskNott](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AskNott)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2003, 2:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/well-i-never-rules-for-living/208392/54 "2003-10-20T14:51:06Z")
Never format anything without first saying, “Eeeeek!” Never try to pick up a broken Oreo® cookie with a vacuum sweeper. Never ask the fellow next to you what he means by the word “sworp.” ---
**Author:** ![Tir\_Tinuviel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/bc79bd/32.png) [@Tir\_Tinuviel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tir_Tinuviel)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2003, 2:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/well-i-never-rules-for-living/208392/55 "2003-10-20T14:54:16Z")
**68, 68, & 68. Never** hit submit more than once… 😃 ---
**Author:** ![SciFiSam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/47e85d/32.png) [@SciFiSam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SciFiSam)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2003, 2:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/well-i-never-rules-for-living/208392/56 "2003-10-20T14:59:00Z")
I didn’t! _takes mallet and chases the hamsters_ ---
**Author:** ![Gartog](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/22d042/32.png) [@Gartog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gartog)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2003, 3:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/well-i-never-rules-for-living/208392/57 "2003-10-20T15:12:58Z")
I wondered why the boards had slowed down. . . . . . **SciFiSam** , stop chasing the hamsters, and put them back on the wheel. ---
**Author:** ![Rebo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rebo/32/13005_2.png) [@Rebo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rebo)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2003, 3:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/well-i-never-rules-for-living/208392/58 "2003-10-20T15:33:09Z")
69!!! Never clip your toenails when you’re drunk. Don’t ask, it wasn’t pretty. ---
**Author:** ![Gartog](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/22d042/32.png) [@Gartog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gartog)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2003, 3:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/well-i-never-rules-for-living/208392/59 "2003-10-20T15:38:06Z")
1. Practice counting consecutivley\* 😉 [sub]And spelling. . . . . [s/ub] ---
**Author:** ![Gyrate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gyrate/32/3588_2.png) [@Gyrate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gyrate)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2003, 3:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/well-i-never-rules-for-living/208392/60 "2003-10-20T15:38:34Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Tir Tinuviel \* > \*\ ***68. Never** start a thread like this cos smelly people whos mothers dress them funny try to make jokes about you… 😛 \*\* 1. **Never** wind up too many Dopers at the same time… [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/well-i-never-rules-for-living/208392.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/well-i-never-rules-for-living/208392.md?page=4)