# What were the 8 simple rules?
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-the-8-simple-rules/202271
**Category:** Cafe Society
**Created:** [September 18, 2003, 1:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-the-8-simple-rules/202271 "2003-09-18T01:30:58Z")
**Posts on this page:** 5
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### Author:  [@corndog\_man](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/corndog_man)
#### Post date: [September 18, 2003, 1:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-the-8-simple-rules/202271/1 "2003-09-18T01:30:58Z")
I have lived in Asia for three years now, and I never saw John Ritter’s show “8 simple rules for dating my teenage daughter”. My question is, what were the 8 simple rules? When a boy came over, did Ritter spout rules to him?
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### Author:  [@Wumpus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wumpus)
#### Post date: [September 18, 2003, 1:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-the-8-simple-rules/202271/2 "2003-09-18T01:36:26Z")
I don’t know, but I’m pretty sure one of them is, “Don’t feed them after midnight.”
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### Author:  [@jeanster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jeanster)
#### Post date: [September 18, 2003, 1:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-the-8-simple-rules/202271/3 "2003-09-18T01:40:28Z")
[Here are the rules.](http://www.wbrucecameron.com/pages/columns/8rules.htm)
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### Author:  [@dangergene](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dangergene)
#### Post date: [September 18, 2003, 3:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-the-8-simple-rules/202271/4 "2003-09-18T03:26:42Z")
8 simple rules is showing on saturday evenings on TCS5 (or Mediacorp, or whatever the hell they’re calling it this week) in Singapore.
I’m not sure how long it’ll take StarWorld to pick up the series. They seem to wait until they have two seasons in the can before they start showing. Which part of the landmass are you residing in Corndog man?
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### Author:  [@C\_K\_Dexter\_Haven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/C_K_Dexter_Haven)
#### Post date: [September 18, 2003, 12:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-the-8-simple-rules/202271/5 "2003-09-18T12:30:49Z")
Since this was a double-post, I’m closing this one (which has the fewest responses) and referring everyone to [the other one.](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?s=&threadid=211954')
**Corndog,** trust the system, it does (mostly) get the posts first time. And if you see you’ve double-posted, please email a moderator to close one of 'em… that way, you’ll get all your responses in one thread.