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Sometimes, you're wrong.

"Rule Fifty-One" was the title of the 7th season finale of the TV show "NCIS," referring to Special Agent Gibbs' established 50 rules for being a special agent of the Naval Criminal Investigative Service. At the end of the episode, in which he needed a lawyer, he went through a box with pieces of paper on which he'd written his rules, and one said, "#13 NEVER, EVER INVOLVE A LAWYER." He turned it over and wrote, "#51 SOMETIMES YOU'RE WRONG." A major admission for Gibbs, even to himself. If he can admit it, we all can.
DiNozzo: "Well, Ziva, it's like Ben Affleck said in 'The Hunt for Red October'... "

McGee: "Tony, Affleck didn't start playing Jack Ryan until 'The Sum of All Fears.' Alec Baldwin played Ryan in 'Red October.'"

DiNozzo: "Seriously, McGeek? YOU are challenging ME on a movie reference? I'm always right about these things, especially when Sean Connery is in the movie!"

Gibbs (slapping DiNozzo on the back of the head): "Rule 51."

DiNozzo: "Ow! Oh yeah: 'Sometimes, you're wrong.'"
Rule 51 by UncleMikeNJ July 7, 2011
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A rule stating that any swear word or phrase can and should be be replaced with DragonBall Z characters, when in the presence of siblings.
1: My printer just died!!!!1!1111!!!1!! NAMEK!

2: What?

1: Little sis is in the room, rule 51.
Rule 51 by Mottman August 23, 2010
Rule 51 states that there will always be even more screwed-up things on the internet than anything that you had just seen.
Rule 51 basically means there will always be something worse than what you just saw, no matter what it is, there will always be more.
Rule 51 by BURZELTH January 19, 2020
An internet rule which states: For every act of nature or man there will be someone within a short period of time that will attribute that act to a conspiracy theory.

Terrorists kill someone? False Flag! Clouds look weird? Conspiracy to poison us all! Another school shooting? Never happened! Just a conspiracy to take our guns! Government says it is a weather balloon? Alien cover-up!

Corollary: If you can think of it, there's a conspiracy theory about it somewhere online.
Do you think Bowie is really dead?
Rule 51!
Rule 51 by Theogenes July 4, 2016
It is said of the situation where a person has the bad luck to make contact with his testicles against an undefined surface or object, intentioned or not.
Given the nature of the word, it is more appropriate to design cases where the interaction is made with a moving object, for example, a ball.
Although it is extremely painful for the victim, it tends to be considerably funny to people who witness it.
Today in the baseball game the pitcher took a nutshot; the baseball hit him in the nuts.

Man, I just watched the funniest nutshot video ever.
Nutshot by Uberflaven March 1, 2009
Word of the Day on June 26, 2026

Nerd neck 

A "human" that spends so much time playing video games that their posture is level nerd neck. Everytime anyone goes tryhard they hunch down and their neck gets longer there fore a nerd neck is always hunched down cause they're always going try hard. In other words a nerd neck is a try hard, since their neck is 100% longer than the average human being due to playing too many video games and taking them serious, nerd necks are not even considered human anymore but something more sad. Nerd necks are often found on fortnite, their natural habitat usually being tilted towers.
What a fucking nerd neck!

He is building so fast, nerd neck!

Looser more like a nerd neck ha!
Nerd neck by D Sandwich Maker February 5, 2019
Word of the Day on June 25, 2026