These 'rules' as you call themwere handed down by a higher power many centuries in the future. only the Duke of Prunes, with his personal internal hole in the space-time continuum can communicate with this power and he can only pass on the words via a series of clicks and giggles.
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Wasp Box like a nervous random stranger at a glory hole,
Tue 21 Aug 2012, 17:23,
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