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Rule of 72

If you don’t practice something hard in 72 hours (3 days), you will forget it
It’s Sunday. I haven’t practiced the Rubiks Cube since Wednesday. I sit down and think: How the hell do I do this thing? Then I realize I haven’t practiced in 72 hours. I think ‘Oh... Rule of 72.’
by Irreduzibel November 11, 2018
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Floppy Dick Rules

Rules for an event that change in the middle of that event, much like a floppy dick flops around.
"I can't believe we have to obey these floppy dick rules!"

"This competition's floppy dick rules are disappointing."
by gunplanexus July 14, 2020
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New rule

It’s now illegal to wear any other coloured eyeliner than black!!
NEW RULE ::Have you heard that any other Coloured eyeliner than black is banned? , :: omg what?? I love my eyeliner
by tt:: @..charsswirls February 16, 2022
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rule 964

If you let someone borrow your hot glue gun, they HAVE to send you a full on tittie pic in return.
I let you borrow my hot glue gun. Rule 964
by Vic rock November 30, 2023
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70/30 rule 130%

Words of wisdom from Iron Ike during a trip to Southeast Asia after arriving in New Delhi on an 18 hour flight explains how things work in India
Iron Ike muttered that this situation followed the 70/30 rule 130% of the time before realizing the logic of the statement and it would forever be associated with his wisdom
by El Diablo4eva March 31, 2025
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A-S-A rule

A rule for daily living: "There's (A)lways (S)ome (A)sshole..."
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.
by DoileyLama February 19, 2023
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Kelly’s Rule of Inquiry

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.”
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
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