What are the other Rules of Aquisition?

Yvaine · July 4 2012, 08:40 PM

In our time on mainly DS9 we learned such great lessons from the Ferengi Rules like 'Greed is Eternal' or 'Once you have their money ... never give it back.', but we didn't learn all of the 285 (286 if you include Quark's rule). So I thought that I'd make a thread and we suggest what some of them might be.

Rush Limborg · July 4 2012, 09:20 PM

Memory Beta actually has an exhaustive list of all the ones established, not just in canon, but in TrekLit.

R. Star · July 4 2012, 09:38 PM

Rush Limborg wrote:

Memory Beta actually has an exhaustive list of all the ones established, not just in canon, but in TrekLit.

Didn't Armin Shimmerman(Quark's Actor) write a book with them all?

Rush Limborg · July 4 2012, 10:31 PM

Not all of them. The book basically had all of those "authorized" by Ira Stephen Behr and Robert Wolfe at the time (many of which were not brought up in the show). It actually had an addendum for "new" rules "being discovered by you hew-mons every day" (i.e., rules the latter episodes established, that weren't in the book already).

Anyway, the books also established a lot of "new" ones. Again--Memory Beta has a list of them all.

But...there are still gaps.

DS9forever · July 4 2012, 10:38 PM

One of the novels gave a rule I quite liked: "Duck, death is tall".

T'Girl · July 4 2012, 11:17 PM

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Rush Limborg · July 5 2012, 09:03 AM

There's one I remember from I, Q--though the Ferengi gives the wrong number for it ("60" is, alas, taken).

"If you can't take it with you...don't go."

July 4 2012, 08:40 PM	#1
Yvaine Ensign Location: DS9	What are the other Rules of Aquisition? In our time on mainly DS9 we learned such great lessons from the Ferengi Rules like 'Greed is Eternal' or 'Once you have their money ... never give it back.', but we didn't learn all of the 285 (286 if you include Quark's rule). So I thought that I'd make a thread and we suggest what some of them might be.

July 4 2012, 09:20 PM	#2
Rush Limborg Vice Admiral Location: The EIB Network	Re: What are the other Rules of Aquisition? Memory Beta actually has an exhaustive list of all the ones established, not just in canon, but in TrekLit. __________________ "I have been wounded but not yet slain. I shall lie here and bleed awhile. Then I shall rise and fight again." "Forget it, Jake...it's Chinatown."

July 4 2012, 10:31 PM	#4
Rush Limborg Vice Admiral Location: The EIB Network	Re: What are the other Rules of Aquisition? Not all of them. The book basically had all of those "authorized" by Ira Stephen Behr and Robert Wolfe at the time (many of which were not brought up in the show). It actually had an addendum for "new" rules "being discovered by you hew-mons every day" (i.e., rules the latter episodes established, that weren't in the book already). Anyway, the books also established a lot of "new" ones. Again--Memory Beta has a list of them all. But...there are still gaps. __________________ "I have been wounded but not yet slain. I shall lie here and bleed awhile. Then I shall rise and fight again." "Forget it, Jake...it's Chinatown."

July 4 2012, 10:38 PM	#5
DS9forever Captain	Re: What are the other Rules of Aquisition? One of the novels gave a rule I quite liked: "Duck, death is tall".

July 4 2012, 11:17 PM	#6
T'Girl Vice Admiral	Re: What are the other Rules of Aquisition? Sex is one of the most beautiful, wholesome and natural things ... that money can buy. (regards to Mister Steve Martin)

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July 5 2012, 09:03 AM	#7
Rush Limborg Vice Admiral Location: The EIB Network	Re: What are the other Rules of Aquisition? There's one I remember from I, Q--though the Ferengi gives the wrong number for it ("60" is, alas, taken). "If you can't take it with you...don't go." __________________ "I have been wounded but not yet slain. I shall lie here and bleed awhile. Then I shall rise and fight again." "Forget it, Jake...it's Chinatown."