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# "New Year’s Rulin’s" to live your life by inside and outside of games
- URL: https://www.killscreen.com/new-years-rulin-s-to-live-your-life-by-inside-and-outsid/
- Published: 2011-12-21T21:05:00.000Z
- Updated: 2015-11-17T15:28:11.000Z
- Description: Folk singer, beloved American hero and all around wise guy Woody Guthrie once made a list of precepts for the new year. Lists of Note transcribed the thing because it was kind of hard to read, but the rulin’s are: NEW YEAR’S RULIN’S 1. WORK MORE AND BETTER 2. WORK BY A SCHEDULE 3. WASH TEETH IF ANY
- Author: Kill Screen Staff
- Tags: News, #wp, #wp-post, #Import 2024-07-26 09:39

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Folk singer, beloved American hero and all around wise guy Woody Guthrie once made a list of precepts for the new year. Lists of Note transcribed the thing because it was kind of hard to read, but the rulin’s are:

> NEW YEAR’S RULIN’S  
>  
> 1\. WORK MORE AND BETTER  
> 2\. WORK BY A SCHEDULE  
> 3\. WASH TEETH IF ANY  
> 4\. SHAVE  
> 5\. TAKE BATH  
> 6\. EAT GOOD – FRUIT – VEGETABLES – MILK  
> 7\. DRINK VERY SCANT IF ANY  
> 8\. WRITE A SONG A DAY  
> 9\. WEAR CLEAN CLOTHES – LOOK GOOD  
> 10\. SHINE SHOES  
> 11\. CHANGE SOCKS  
> 12\. CHANGE BED CLOTHES OFTEN  
> 13\. READ LOTS GOOD BOOKS  
> 14\. LISTEN TO RADIO A LOT  
> 15\. LEARN PEOPLE BETTER  
> 16\. KEEP RANCHO CLEAN  
> 17\. DON’T GET LONESOME  
> 18\. STAY GLAD  
> 19\. KEEP HOPING MACHINE RUNNING  
> 20\. DREAM GOOD  
> 21\. BANK ALL EXTRA MONEY  
> 22\. SAVE DOUGH  
> 23\. HAVE COMPANY BUT DON’T WASTE TIME  
> 24\. SEND MARY AND KIDS MONEY  
> 25\. PLAY AND SING GOOD  
> 26\. DANCE BETTER  
> 27\. HELP WIN WAR – BEAT FASCISM  
> 28\. LOVE MAMA  
> 29\. LOVE PAPA  
> 30\. LOVE PETE  
> 31\. LOVE EVERYBODY  
> 32\. MAKE UP YOUR MIND  
> 33\. WAKE UP AND FIGHT

A lot of these (WORK MORE AND BETTER, BANK ALL EXTRA MONEY, WAKE UP AND FIGHT) sound like something scrawled on some long-forgotten *Skyrim* forum, which is kind of awesome. These rules apply both within and without the game, however.

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*\-Drew Millard*

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