The rule of the internet where if you mention something seen on the "dark side of the internet" you must not speak of it. Those who do are ultimately shamed and often disowned.
You better follow the Dark Internet Rule, or else your sister and I will have no choice but to shame you endlessly.
by PheoShayett November 27, 2016

Marketing rule: If it can't be sold as is, someone will remove the name and put the word Zombie on it. It will then sell with great success.
We could not sell Dried Seaweed so we removed the label and put Dried Zombie Skin on it. It's never sold better thanks to Rule Z.
by Rmistiff December 7, 2011

Guy 1- Hey man wanna search rule 34 online because we are middle school boys who have no gf?
Guy 2- Bet
Guy 2- Bet
by Gr@phic August 14, 2022

Alice: We got all the pages set up on the wiki, but somebody from procurement logged in and replaced them all with penis images.
Betty: A-S-A rule.
Betty: A-S-A rule.
by DoileyLama February 19, 2023

If you ask the top people for their opinions first, you won’t get effective advice from the people below them.
A group of people can be asked to make a decision and will march off in a direction they never would have taken by themselves.
When doctors are preparing to perform brain surgery on your wife, pull the top surgeons and physicians into a breakroom with residents and other medical staff and ask the people on the lowest rungs of the profession for their opinions on the surgery first.
Source: Astronaut Mark Kelly, husband of former Arizona Congresswoman Gabby Giffords, in 2014 at the annual Visitor Industry Luncheon at the Sioux Falls Convention Center
“I learned you do not want to ask the space shuttle commander, the flight director, the chief engineer or program manager his opinion first. If you do, you don’t get effective advice from the people below them.”
A group of people can be asked to make a decision and will march off in a direction they never would have taken by themselves.
When doctors are preparing to perform brain surgery on your wife, pull the top surgeons and physicians into a breakroom with residents and other medical staff and ask the people on the lowest rungs of the profession for their opinions on the surgery first.
Source: Astronaut Mark Kelly, husband of former Arizona Congresswoman Gabby Giffords, in 2014 at the annual Visitor Industry Luncheon at the Sioux Falls Convention Center
“I learned you do not want to ask the space shuttle commander, the flight director, the chief engineer or program manager his opinion first. If you do, you don’t get effective advice from the people below them.”
At Los Alamos, visitors Niels Bohr and brother Harald obeyed Kelly’s Rule of Inquiry by running their ideas on the current work by Richard Feynman before asking anyone higher up.
by WhatwasIsaying January 25, 2025

The changing of gameboard rules like adding another game board piece that doesn't normally belong there to create I different game with a different experience.
When my friend and I get board of the same board game we try to rule swap it with another board game to have more fun!
by LaDodgers360 June 12, 2016

In tennis, this rule comes into play when you're leading by just one game and want to avoid the risk of losing. Under this rule, you play just one final game, with no possibility of losing. The result will either be a win or a tie. var: "Super Alejandro" rule: You're up by more than one game and can only win.
Momentum changed and I won 4 in a row to get within one game, but my opponent invoked Alejandro Rules and it ended in a tie.
by nawhea March 10, 2025
