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"Do not act incautiously when confronting little bald wrinkly smiling men!"  A favorite saying of the [[History Monks|History Monk]] [[Lu-Tze]].

Some of the other rules:
*'''Rule 2''' - "Never refuse a weapon"
*'''Rule 3''' - "Be afraid when you are in possession of a deadly weapon and face an unarmed man in a pose of submission"
*'''Rule 19''' - "Always remember Rule One and ask yourself, why was it created in the first place"

==Annotations==
In the Doctor Who serial ''The Ribos Operation'', The Fourth Doctor (played by Tom Baker) is forced to take a fellow Time Lord, Romana, as an assistant in an assignment. Disgruntled, he insists on ground rules, the first of which is 'Do exactly as I say'. Later in the same episode, challenged by Romana for his antics, he merely says "Remember Rule One!"

There is or used to be a variant of this in football, of which Sir Alex Ferguson could usefully be reminded.

*'''''Rule One''''' The referee is always right.
*'''''Rule Two''''' In the event of the referee ever being wrong, refer to Rule One. 

Schoolteachers and mothers are also fond of adapting this variant for their own ends.

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