Here's the stuff we found when you searched for "Are they rules? Or are they simply what everyone finds most easy, and therefore come to expect?"

• If they come for us
• someone without tattoos clearly has a fear of pain, which means in the kitchen they are slow and useless, therefore the food is weak and empty
• they still come to me even though i don't come to them
• Most of the men were disillusioned long before they met her
• Everyone has something they can't cook
• My fingers find the well-loved throat they seek
• To women, to hide their teeth, if they be rotten or rusty
• Or were they chords of sun?
• Most men will not swim before they are able to
• Of course they want to come here. Who doesn't? Besides the people from Los Angeles, but we don't speak of them.
• The next time they would come, I would not be here.
• If they put you in a copy machine, an ass would come out
• The economy has hit everyone hard. Well, everyone who hasn't lost track of how many houses they own, anyhow.
• Everybody Eats When They Come to My House
• Most adults forget what it was like to be a child once they hit a certain age
• When they come they'll eat the fat ones first
• sometimes during the rainy season they find bones in the gardens
• they might come up here and shoot us all
• It is forbidden to kill; therefore all murderers are punished unless they kill in large numbers and to the sound of trumpets
• The Harder They Come
• The echoes as they come
• Frontiers are not easy, nor are they meant to be
• The day they caught the governor, and everyone else
• a steady diet of coincidences makes it easy to believe they are more than just coincidences
• Frisky, most silver, serene -- bright step at the margins of air, you tiny colossus and winsome and master me, easy in sunlight, you gracious one come to me, live in my life
• everyone has some burden they carry
• Stand back from the doors or they might kill you
• Don't kill your invisible husband to see what he looks like or you'll sob your heart out. But don't worry about the millions of invisible men coming to attack your village because they won't kill you if you don't know how to fight them.
• If they do not give you work or bread, then take bread
• "It gets better" or so they say.
• Gaily they went down in the lush field a treasure of valuables or specie or bullion lodged with a crust of bread into her coat of arms weaving currying the embroidering of silk in summer.
• They are in love with each other, or the city
• people are lazy about explanations so they make rules
• We must remember them or they cease to be.
• If you build it they will come
• They only come out at night
• What Have They Done to the Rain
• the way will find you. it finds everyone, somehow.
• Automobile tire pressure
• The Times They Are A-Changin'
• Eduardo Kac's GFP Bunny, a work of transgenic art, or, It's not easy being green
• What They Saw in the Country of El Dorado
• Reasons toilets swirl the way they do
• Chipirones en su tinta
• They must have faces
• The owls are not what they seem
• Most of these things I've never seen in real life. Only on screens. Or Elsewhere. I'd die without it.
• They all lived happily ever after
• What Italian guys are really talking about when they say "Ey Oh"
• They Might Be Giants
• Moments such as these are superfluous to my life; nevertheless, they deserve to be remembered.
• They don't understand my tea
• Give 'em an inch and they'll take a yard
• Now you do what they told ya
• They are angry and they have been lied to
• They want me for a focus group!
• Winners don't do drugs, they just sell them
• Potatoes saved my life they can save yours too
• This is not a joke. It won't be easy. We will rule the world.
• This moment will never come again. Would you rather enjoy it or complain about it?
• The Five Little Peppers and How They Grew
• The imaginary world where I make up things and they are true
• Candide and Martin Sup with Six Sharpers--Who They Were
• Honk if your horn is broken: Where do they get these stupid stickers?
• the stuff they keep out of the papers, and off the TV, for your own damn good
• Candide and Martin Touch upon the English Coast -- What They See There
• They were getting into riot gear as we sipped our wine
• Things they should teach in school
• What Have They Done to the Rain?
• Where do they keep the car keys when they transport cars?
• They own the pack while we play the three card trick
• They couldn't install the DSL.
• I know they are watching me
• They Flee From Me
• They asked me to write a letter
• They might not need me - yet they might -
• Why do computer geeks feel they were born in the wrong time?
• And They Believed Me!
• They forgot to give me the operating system!
• They just kind of went away
• When they say "Gotta have it!" they mean it!
• They always jump off the east side
• The New, Short and Easy Method of Fencing
• And there find God in everyone
• Hints for Etiquette; or, Dining Out made Easy
• Either everyone deserves or no one does
• or i may simply be a single drop of rain
• My soul is in a million pieces. I tried to collect most of them, but some are missing, and the ones I have don't fit together anymore. Feel free to take a piece or two.
• Let him hold out hope that someone or other might come. Then fuckin' kill him.
• Brittle things will break before they turn
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• The Ten Commandments revised
• They hit each other, like fucking Christ intended!
• Hit by the realization that they are all getting to know you nodes
• Fuck 'em if they can't take a joke
• You turn around and suddenly notice that they are growing up
• Come strong or stay home
• Children who are born blind still smile when they are happy
• Ground rush
• They mass produce plastic women
• Scientist hits head on curb joke
• Thinking you know more about computers than the tech you just called
• They wrote it all in perl but it was mostly system calls
• I thought ALL women looked for a wedding ring when they talked to ANY man
• Take a day, plant some trees, may they shade you from me
• Ernie and Bert are not gay. They're puppets. They don't even have legs.
• Whatever it is they spray inside of bowling shoes
• Words that don't mean the same as they used to
• Dead people are not sleeping. They are dead.
• You say "the internet" but you mean "the world wide web"
• It's hard to know what to say when a friend's parent they always hated suddenly dies
• Why girlfriends get annoyed when they remember things you don't
• Tell your kids things that they shouldn't know about
• Treating registers as if they were variables
• Erewhon : Chapter XX - What They Mean By It
• They shoot videogames in Indianapolis, don't they?
• Prilosec
• They don't know what they're missing
• Words you can't use unless they describe you
• Why are estate agents so superior, after all they ARE estate agents?
• I used to love women from afar. Of course, now they call it stalking.
• The Department of They
• Ready or Not, Here I Come
• But, my dear sir, if you educate them, they will no longer be Baptists
• They don't touch me the same way
• if you're lucky, they fuse into something bright and astonishing
• They could have sprung 50 cents for a connector
• People who argue, using terms they refuse to define
• Is this a cocoon or a tomb? Each comes with the risk of secretly being the other.
• when i get out i'll come and find you cause you're my other half i never told you that
• life goes on easy for me, most of the time
• Stable emulsion of oil in water, or easy salad dressings
• Good Beat, Easy to Dance To (or The Bottom Line)
• The Places You Have Come to Fear the Most
• Who sees the most beautiful stars, the poet or the astronomer?
• Strange man makes permanent visit
• The Most Difficult Part of the Story: Beginning, Middle or End?
• The Tragedy of Prince Hamlet and the Philosopher's Stone, or, A Will Most Incorrect to Heaven by William Shakespeare
• Is the lock broke, or does everyone have a key?
• Or do we like time's children come also at last to the silent shadowlands?
• I do not function as part of a machine and therefore by any proper definition I simply do not function at all
• Objects in mirror are closer than they appear
• Tricks girls use to look like they swallow
• What would aliens think of us if Everything was all they had?
• They killed our Lord
• cat haters
• Oh my god! They killed Kenny!
• I bet you they won't play this song on the radio
• They leap just because they can, out of joy
• They danced with fire claws
• Foam on the tide is no more or less real than the sea, it simply is, was, will be
• Candide and His Valet Arrive in the Country of El Dorado--What They Saw There
• Of course, they were wrong
• They have potential, if they only applied themselves
• I was discovered by scientists, what will they call me?
• Late-night rally driving on the beach, or: Run like Hell when the cops come
• Anonymous Men Think They Can Talk To Me
• What do girls think about guys who think about what other people think about girls and what they do?
• Kids aren't cute; they just do stupid things
• They Live
• Things that a fetus would say if it could speak
• All my friends are nonconformists. They all dress like me.
• So that's what they call it nowadays?
• play dumb
• WARNING: Noders May Not Be What They Seem to Be
• They moved like a river
• First They Came
• How would you like it if they took your subculture and made it a theme night?
• But what are they really thinking?
• The Budweiser commercial they refuse to air
• "Sex, as they harshly call it"
• just come out of the ship talking to the most blonde
• I was into them after they were hip
• Real hackers start their own IRC networks so that they can't be traced by the FBI

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