The 36 Rules of Life
1. Never, under any circumstances, take a sleeping pill and a laxative on the same night.
2. Don’t worry about what people think, they don’t do it very often.
3. Going to church doesn’t make you a Christian anymore than standing in a garage makes you a car.
4. Artificial intelligence is no match for natural stupidity.
5. If you must choose between two evils, pick the one you’ve never tried before.
6. My idea of housework is to sweep the room with a glance.
7. Not one shred of evidence supports the notion that life is serious.
8. A person who is nice to you but rude to the waiter, is not a nice person.
9. For every action, there is an equal and opposite government program.
10. If you look like your passport picture, you probably need the trip.
11. Bills travel through the mail at twice the speed of checks.
12. A conscience is what hurts when all of your other parts feel so good.
13. Eat well, stay fit, die anyway.
1 4. Men are from earth. Women are from earth. Deal with it.
15. No man has ever been shot while doing the dishes.
16. A balanced diet is a muffin in each hand.
17. Middle age is when broadness of the mind and narrowness of the waist change places.
18. Opportunities always look bigger going than coming.
19. Junk is something you’ve kept for years and throw away three weeks before you need it.
20. There is always one more imbecile than you counted on.
21. Experience is a wonderful thing. It enables you to recognize a mistake when you make it again.
22. By the time you can make ends meet, they move the ends.
23. Thou shalt not weigh more than thy refrigerator.
24. Someone who thinks logically provides nice contrast to the real world.
25. It ain’t the jeans that make your butt look fat.
26. If you had to identify in one word the reason why the human race has not achieved it’s full potential, that word would be ‘meetings’.
27. There is a very fine line between ‘hobby’ and ‘mental illness.’
28. People who want to share their religious views with you almost never want you to share yours with them.
29. You should not confuse your career with your life.
30. Nobody cares if you can’t dance well. Just get up and dance.
31. Never lick a steak knife.
32. The most destructive force in the universe is gossip.
33. You will never find anybody who can give you a clear and compelling reason why we observe daylight savings time.
34. You should never say anything to a woman that even remotely suggests that you think she’s pregnant unless you can see an actual baby emerging from her at that moment.
35. The one thing that unites all human beings, regardless of age, gender, religion, economic status or ethnic background, is that deep down inside we ALL believe we are good drivers.
36. Your friends love you anyway.








March 8th, 2009 at 2:39 am
Haha. Funny pictures are great for lifting up moods
July 14th, 2009 at 7:55 am
Hi,
I am impressed by this picture- it is so pretty!
August 13th, 2009 at 8:34 am
Hey!!!!!
THat was gud!!!! I like number 3 best!
November 7th, 2009 at 1:07 am
I love all, especially the religious views one. If you expect people to respect your religion by hearing you out, and you don’t do the same for them, just goes to show how amazing your faith is.
November 7th, 2009 at 1:23 am
I thought everybody knew why we had daylight savings time… Everybody who explained it to me gave a very compelling reason.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daylight_savings_time
November 7th, 2009 at 11:47 am
I really like the last one, thank you.
November 7th, 2009 at 1:00 pm
pretty funny. but 33 is off. the sun would get off timing if we didn’t do daylight savings. maybe not if we only skipped it once, but if we skipped a few it would have a big effect.
November 7th, 2009 at 1:36 pm
Wow these are hilarious… lol
November 7th, 2009 at 2:17 pm
It’s funny that most of these are true
November 7th, 2009 at 2:47 pm
Stumbled!
I like this list
It’s sooo true
November 7th, 2009 at 2:48 pm
Stumbled
Nice list ^^
They’re all so true
November 7th, 2009 at 4:22 pm
#28
I would know this one to be true from MULTIPLE first-hand experiences, sadly enough.
November 7th, 2009 at 5:14 pm
I thought number 3 was the worst.
November 7th, 2009 at 5:36 pm
#33 is too funny
November 7th, 2009 at 7:46 pm
Daylight Savings Time saves a huge amount of energy, actually. The later it gets dark at night, the fewer hours of electric light people use, since more people stay up after sunset than wake up before sunrise, especially in the summer.
November 7th, 2009 at 9:08 pm
Daylight savings time is practiced so we have more daylight in the morning when it’s more useful. It makes a big difference in northern areas. I think that’s a compelling reason. What’s so hard to figure out. Very funny though.
November 9th, 2009 at 4:04 am
gossip … the most destructive force ? true
November 9th, 2009 at 7:50 pm
# 19 and #21
speak to me
great list!
stumbled upon it!
November 10th, 2009 at 3:38 am
The authors of quite a few of these would more than likely prefer to be given credit.
November 10th, 2009 at 8:06 am
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November 10th, 2009 at 8:52 am
Conrad, that makes no sense at all. Arizona doesn’t celebrate DST, and their sun’s timing seems to be just fine.
November 10th, 2009 at 10:24 am
conrad is proof of number 20
\"pretty funny. but 33 is off. the sun would get off timing if we didn’t do daylight savings. maybe not if we only skipped it once, but if we skipped a few it would have a big effect.
\"
November 10th, 2009 at 11:26 am
Love number 30. Dancing is good. Makes one happy.
November 10th, 2009 at 2:13 pm
Conrad-
You can\’t possibly be serious. Daylight savings time is designed to utilize available day light, and as a result save energy. No amount of willpower or belief invested in DST will ever cause the sun to become \"Off timing\". If you ever do figure out how to accomplish that though, I know some scientists that would be very interested.
November 10th, 2009 at 5:30 pm
The sun wouldn’t “go off timing”, only the concept of time would be thrown off. Sorry for being that guy.
November 10th, 2009 at 8:18 pm
14 of these are ripped off from Dave Barry’s “14 Things it took me Over 50 years to learn”
November 11th, 2009 at 9:18 pm
If we skipped a couple of daylights savings times the sun would not get off timing. Notice how we have two in a year? One ahead and one back that cancel each other out. If we never had another daylights savings time it would just get darker an hour earlier for half the year. There are plenty of places that don’t observe daylights savings times.
Great Post
November 11th, 2009 at 10:01 pm
@conrad, I thnk you’re confusing daylight savings with leap years…
November 12th, 2009 at 3:58 am
Great collection!
November 12th, 2009 at 11:44 pm
These rules are very funny, I agree, gossip is very destructive
November 12th, 2009 at 11:47 pm
I sepcially liked number 25
November 13th, 2009 at 12:14 am
I laughed out loud for real when I read the one about the pregnant woman. That was funny.
November 13th, 2009 at 8:37 am
Great list I’ve tweeted this post. Very entertaining stuff. Well done.
November 24th, 2009 at 4:51 am
Absolutely wonderful! A big thumbs up!
November 25th, 2009 at 9:46 pm
self righteous fodder.
November 27th, 2009 at 2:52 am
Artificial intelligence is no match for natural stupidity.
this i love the most.
November 28th, 2009 at 4:00 am
Daylight Savings Time was devised by Benjamin Franklin. He realized that slowly, our calendars would go off because the way we measured time meant that, very slowly, the times would change as well. If we didn’t adjust the time to fit the actual period of daylight, it would be 12 in the afternoon in the middle of the night. This would, slowly, change what day it was, changing our calendar around. In order to counter-balance this, Ben created the taking away and giving of hours. We call this Daylight Savings Time.
December 22nd, 2009 at 12:58 pm
8. A person who is nice to you but rude to the waiter, is not a nice person… painfully true
December 27th, 2009 at 10:07 pm
6, 30, and 36 basically sum up my life…so far.
December 27th, 2009 at 10:12 pm
@Claire
daylight savings happens twice a year, once going forward and once going back.it just moves everything one hour ahead then one hour back. it’s sort of like adding a number to coordinates,you only move the shape made by them, you don’t change it.
December 28th, 2009 at 11:18 am
The page timed out, so I don’t know if this will be a double post- but loved it, going to share it on my blog later
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December 31st, 2009 at 11:41 am
Stumbled upon this.
Great, hillarious and thoughtful.
Peace.
January 1st, 2010 at 10:20 am
I’m going to shed some light to those that think Daylight Savings Time “saves” energy. The truth of the matter is that there is zero proof that it has saved anything at all. The amount saved is SO little, that it can’t be proven. I wish people would get a little more educated instead of listening to Fox News for all their ignorant education. All you have to do is Google. Tons of articles will tell you just what I told you. Don’t be a fucking fool.
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January 14th, 2010 at 6:08 pm
Stumbled!
Cracked me up, especially the first one!
January 18th, 2010 at 2:36 pm
Daylight savings is a farce, and all your reasons are idiotic.
Politicians justify the practice under the auspice of environmentalism. The time tyrants cite flawed statistics that highlight a minor downtick in energy consumption during DST. The practice of biannual clock adjustments became vogue during World War I in response to coal shortages. During the 1960s, daylight saving time became law in the United States.
Now it’s simply a ploy to extend daylight hours so stores can sell more products. It’s proven that people “buy more shit” during the day. It’s all commercialism and greed perpetuated by your idealistic consumer laden culture.
January 18th, 2010 at 2:36 pm
Daylight savings is a farce, and all your reasons are idiotic.
Politicians justify the practice under the auspice of environmentalism. The time tyrants cite flawed statistics that highlight a minor downtick in energy consumption during DST. The practice of biannual clock adjustments became vogue during World War I in response to coal shortages. During the 1960s, daylight saving time became law in the United States.
Now it’s simply a ploy to extend daylight hours so stores can sell more products. It\’s proven that people \"buy more shit\" during the day. It\’s all commercialism and greed perpetuated by your idealistic consumer laden culture.
February 6th, 2010 at 11:54 am
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February 16th, 2010 at 9:19 am
There was nothing in there about grammar, but I found it funny anyway
On a side note, number 26 has used the conjunction “it’s” incorrectly. It should be the possessive “its”.
Yes, that is what Grammar Nazis do.
March 3rd, 2010 at 7:37 am
there’s a 37. rule: No matter what you do, conversations will always be most exciting, if something is wrong
March 6th, 2010 at 11:43 pm
Stumbled!
I really like this list
March 15th, 2010 at 2:52 pm
I still visit this page from time to time, and enjoy it now just as much as i enjoyed it the first time.
March 17th, 2010 at 4:13 am
Great list. #8 is a great rule of thumb for judging one’s character.
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March 17th, 2010 at 4:13 am
Great list. #8 is a great rule of thumb for judging one\’s character.
March 30th, 2010 at 7:58 am
I think these were originally written by Dave Barry who is some assclown with no talent but thinks he’s funny. I know it was he who said ‘never lick a steak knife’ and I thought ‘what a moron’ because I always lick my steak knives. You just don’t lick the blade!
March 30th, 2010 at 8:22 am
Stumbled this, great list. 34 is my favourite – I’ve made that mistake many a time!
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March 31st, 2010 at 7:59 am
“be what you is, because if you is what you ‘aint, you ‘aint what you is.”
April 5th, 2010 at 5:31 pm
While energy and environment concerns are a “benefit” of daylight savings that is not why it is practiced. The practice of daylight saving was first suggested by Benjamin Franklin by suggesting that people get up earlier to accomplish more during the day; however, he is not credited with the modern use of daylight saving time which is to lengthen the summer days allowing more activities to get done before dusk. Entomologist, George Hudson of New Zealand is actually credited with the proposal of Daylight Saving Time in 1895
April 7th, 2010 at 8:41 pm
Conrad & Claire managed to prove both #s 20 & 33. Good job!
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April 21st, 2010 at 9:42 pm
truer words, have never been spoken
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August 8th, 2011 at 3:02 pm
this made my day!!
August 11th, 2011 at 2:56 pm
Good job! Gonna to post some jokes on twitter. I like #31 Never lick a steak knife – very acute joke