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1.1 "Mayberry Rules" vs "Prison Rules"
or
Winning is the Only Thing

February 20, 2012


While wandering around the web, I stumbled on a reference to "they use Mayberry Rules while their opponents use Prison Rules".  The several statements were two fold, something to the effect
"You can return to Mayberry Rules after we win the fight", and
"You are using Mayberry Rules while they are using Prison Rules".

Sounded like a nice contrast, so, of course, I grepped to find what the common usage of the terms might mean.  Turns out, the contrast didn't seem to be terribly common terms but I did find them.  It also highlighted the sorry, degenerate case of the search engines pathetically trying to "know what you mean" => see "Google, Bing, etc: I prefer Grep"

Mayberry Rules

Apparently [1], in Episode 162 of The Andy Griffin Show, Andy told someone:
"The Mayberry Rules for a (long, happy) Happy Life:

  1. Don't play leapfrog with elephants
  2. Don't pet a tiger unless his tail is wagging
  3. Never, ever mess with the Ladies' Auxiliary."

Bottom line:
Don't worry, be happy, work together, make the pie bigger.

Side note: Barney Fife's rules were:
Rule No. 1: Obey all rules.
Rule No. 2: Do not write on the walls, as it is very hard to erase writing from walls.

Prison Rules

This one was also hard to Grep: it seems the commercial, biased search engines are focused on a clientele that is more "confined", as one might expect.  Fortunately, the Urban Dictionary [2] did have this rule, as I might expect.
Prison Rules:
To do something or play a sport by cheating, being physically aggressive and otherwise trying to win at all costs.

Bottom line:
A zero sum or win/lose game with high value.

What this means

See "Teamwork, Team Playing, and Belly bucking"


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      Chapters

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  January 01, 1997
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    February 20, 2012
2   Random Elucidatons
  January 01, 1997
2.1   Stifle Free Speech
    November 16, 2012
2.2   Rewarding Accomplishing Goals
    February 17, 2013
2.3   Banana Slugs:The Law of Unintended Consequences:Protect and Lose
    August 02, 2009
2.4   Computer ate my Sbx Reward
    February 03, 2013
2.5   The End Of Innovation or How To Lie With Statistics?
    July 02, 2005
2.6   Lying With Statistics:CNN Article that Organic Food is Not "more nutritious'
    August 22, 2008
2.7   Everything Old is New Again
    June 28, 2011
2.8   Topical:just like Sub-Prime => Commodity Greed
    April 19, 2008
2.9   Tools:Spreading Knowledge That Can Hurt:
    April 14, 2008
2.10   Tools:Trying to Help While Still Selling Corn
    February 27, 2008
2.11   The Game is Rigged:Attacking with Speculative Analysis
    January 06, 2008
2.12   Getting your "Eyes On" to see ATV Damage
    November 26, 2007
2.13   US Forest Service - "Leave No Trace... or you will do Trail Maintenance with a Trowel!"
    October 13, 2007
2.14   Act Locally, Destroy Globally:Cultivate Disease Resistance
    March 04, 2007
2.15   Joisting with Self-Glorifying Windmills
    March 03, 2007
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    April 06, 2013
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  March 23, 2016
5   BBC - Propaganda
  June 10, 2016
6   BBC Propaganda, again
  June 15, 2016
7    Why did Agriculture Start 13,000 years ago
  June 23, 2016
8   Ice Core TimeLine Munge
  September 22, 2016
9   Ice Age Survival
  December 29, 2016
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