No srsly, those rules are famous. I had them stuck to my desk back in my AOL chatroom days. It turned out that they work.
The real challenge is finding the right person to use those rules on. If you can get A without those rules and can get A, B, and C *with* those rules; you were better off with A, because A would have liked you anyway, but with B or C you – well, cheated. And eventually B or C will figure out that you weren’t who they thought you were. And in the meantime A found someone else.
Oh, <i>him</i>. Andreas Capellanus, <i>The Art of Courtly Love</i>, and Eleanor of Aquitaine (who popularized the ideas in both France and England) started screwing up the Western European World’s idea of love and romance in the late 12th Century and it’s been fucked up ever since.
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No srsly, those rules are famous. I had them stuck to my desk back in my AOL chatroom days. It turned out that they work.
The real challenge is finding the right person to use those rules on. If you can get A without those rules and can get A, B, and C *with* those rules; you were better off with A, because A would have liked you anyway, but with B or C you – well, cheated. And eventually B or C will figure out that you weren’t who they thought you were. And in the meantime A found someone else.
As Zimriel says, these rules are a real document (although the real author is not Rich’s bard character). Here it is:
https://www.cusd80.com/cms/lib/AZ01001175/Centricity/Domain/613/The%20Twelve%20Chief%20Rules%20in%20Love.doc
Oh, <i>him</i>. Andreas Capellanus, <i>The Art of Courtly Love</i>, and Eleanor of Aquitaine (who popularized the ideas in both France and England) started screwing up the Western European World’s idea of love and romance in the late 12th Century and it’s been fucked up ever since.