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This page is for the people who have actually read some of my literature before. This portion of the intro is where I'll tell you how I came up with the Stupid Rules. But since the MD Warnings came first,  I want to introduce the Mon & Dad Warning system  first. I came up with back in the 90s' during my hand written journal days.

Excerpt from Burning Down House

There were times in the local grocery store and heard people talking about the things I had written. When I heard a lady say to another line, "It's good for the kids,"
          I was quite surprised. I contemplated watering down some of the subject matter because I felt some of it wasn't appropriate for children. All of a sudden I realized I had a dilemma on my hand. I felt I needed to cater to all age groups, but I still wanted to be a good influence for the kids. If I only wrote material that was only suited for children, the material could become too soft and corny for adult readers and I didn’t want to loose them.

The pages were written in the spur of the moment and I never knew when something would be inappropriate for children until it was an after the fact, so on July 20th, of 1998, on page 159, I came up with the idea for Mom & Dad Warnings.

    I introduced it in a really cute way by writing a spiff:

I'm going to have Mom & Dad Warnings.

Meaning:

Drop what you're doing and get your folks.

        M-D Warning is the Cue.

It's like a Safety Rope and Help’s on the way.

Since topics of interest I wrote about were spontaneous and could change at any given moment, I'd turn back to the previous page before mature oriented material and write in the margin with a red pin, "M-D Warning.” I thought if my journal was being posted on an Internet web sight, a parent would be able to look over their child's shoulder every once in awhile -- see the warning -- then distract the child away from the screen while they check out the nature of the material on the next page before letting their children view it. Many times instead of writing an inappropriate word, I'd just draw a line with a letter within it as a hint as to what the word would be. It was a way of showing kids I was aware that some of my literature wasn't proper.

There was a time I was in the local grocery store and I overheard a couple women talking about the things I’d been writing about. Then one said, "He should come up with some rules."

I thought: I bet I could come up with some rules, but theirs got to be something special about them.

I wanted to make the rules easy to remember so I matched them up with numbers in significant ways. Coming up with a name for the rules wasn't very difficult because it only came naturally.

Now days when I look back on all those hand written journal entries, I can't help but crack up at some of the outrageous things I jotted down. It got to the point where if I wrote something down that might require a Stupid Rule, my raders were sure to let me know that it called for one. It became a game and my followers knew the numbers better than I did.  

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I would go through and change some of the words I've used in this site, but then it wouldn't be honest. The way I look at it, dirty words have never hurt anyone. I feel it's the way in which words can be used that can hurt people. If I offend anyone please understand that it is in no way a well polished site. To be honest with you, some of the material you'll read heremay be only first or second draft, and out of all the material I've written I'm not really sure what is actually on this site. I'm actually trying to save some of my material for my books, so don't be surprised if you are left with some unanswered questions

Excuse me for any ill valued remarks I might have used. They should only be considered as figments of speech. Just as a few of the statements ion this web-site will amuse some people; there are a few statements that may offend others. I feel if I'm going to have to write this lousy website I'm going to write it as I see fit; so you'll just have to live with it.

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January 1, 2008: Happy New years folks.
I want to thank everyone for stopping by over the past year.
I happy to be able to say that in just the last 6 months, the amount of visitors to my sites have quadrupled.
        I think of it as some kind of success for us all, because if you would ask me what the main goal of all this is: I'd have to say that I would hope it would get the patent laws changed for the better. At least back to the way the US had it before Clinton got his little slimy hands on them. And globally I hope we all can abolish the GATT Treaty.
     I'm sorry if any of you found yourself upset at the bad news you may have found here on this site. There is stuff I'd rather not have to post, but it's a difficult job and someone has to do it.
       I think it's the reason I'm still on this earth with all of you. I guess it's my calling in one way or another. I just don't want anyone to forget about the other inventors who we've already lost. We can never get them  back, but we can sure try to save the smart guys we still have left. Lets just hope we can help them prosper and reproduce so that we'll have more of them around us all.
     Thank you and God Bless,
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I'd like to mention, that there is a high percentage of the new material never makes it to a first rewrite stage. I figure that I pull about 50% of what I post on this site within the first day or two, quite often. So if you are one of those who frequent this site -- well excuse me, -- because you're one who knows what I'm taking about.
     But thanks for stopping by anyway.

If you'd like to help out, it would be great if you posted a few links back to this web-site from others. It helps a lot and thanks to you if you have done it already.

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