1. you must be able to see the car in question
2. If you are the first to be picked up on a journey, you are automatically given shotgun, untill you violate the other shotgun laws and thus, forfeit your position, the seat is yours
3. you cannot declare shot gun if someone has previosuly declared shotgun for that journey.
4. when simultaneous shotgun is called, there is then a foot race to the passenger side door from the all the people who called
5. shotgun cannot be called whilst inside a building (unless you are in a multi storey or underground car park!)
6. shotgun cannt be called in advance, only whilst on the way to the car for the journey
7. on the call shotgun if the driver wants to mix things up a bit he can call reload, this means that all calls of shotgun before that are void and the first person to call shotgun again gets the seat... and if u plain don't like the person who called shotgun.
this is often used when there is a simultanious call and the driver is unsure of the outcome, also a shotgun can have 2 barrels so a reload can only be called once
8. ja rob rule...if hes in the car shotgun now means back left so he cant punch you every time a yellow car goes past
9. Once shotgun has been called for the front seat then back left and back right can be called, thus leaving the fifth person who is travelling in the middle (or the "bitch" seat)
10. Being as how everyone is created equal, men have the same right as women to the front seat of the car. i.e. women don't own the front seat!
11. In the instance that the normal driver of a vehicle is drunk or otherwise unable to perform their duties as driver, then he/she is automatically given Shotgun.
12. Once the journey is underway, the person occupying shotgun becomes controller of stereo/radio and it is their duty to sort out the tunes.

HOWEVER, if this person is being an arse,abusing their position and pissing everyone off with crap choice of music/constantly changing/or just generally not in control then the driver can stop the car, tell them to give up shotgun and then it is up for grabs for all other persons in the car
13. Shoe Rule, anyone calling shotgun must have their shoes on, this is to stop people running outside and calling shotgun, then having to go back inside to put their shoes on, thus slowing the journey
14. Shotgun overrules Dibs, Baggsy's and and other girly calls!
15. despite the debate, shotgun can be used to shotgun things other than the front seat (eg back left, back right, women, not going to answer the door etc etc etc)
16. If travelling with a couple, one of the couple must shotgun the front.....no one wants to chauffer two of their mates whilst they are sat in the back all over each other
17. If someone has successfully called shotgun, this gives them no right whatsoever to correct the driver on their navigation skills ("take a left here you dickhead!") or driving ability ("I'd be in third gear if i was drving") if the passenger does this then they forfeit their position as shotgun holder
18. if someone says "whats shotgun?" after it has been called then they have to walk
19. If you come up to the car and you already have whos shotgun..the driver gets in and reaches over to unlock the shotgun door. if shotgun opens it before its actually unlocked..(this happens when the driver is still trying to unlock it and person pulls on handle) they have to give up there rights as shotgun. Therefore..shotgun suicide!
20. The successful shotgunner, in the front of a vehicle, assumes the responsibility for all gate opening, off licence nipping into, takeaway ordering and question asking. He/she is, in essence the co-pilot and therefore the enforcer of behaviour in the vehicle and exacter of slaps/punches/water spraying/bag throwing at the passengers in the back.

The flash box above is a culmination of a series of short video clips I made of Niall McEnhill and Micky McLaughlin playing the guitar and bass. They were recorded on my mobile, so the quality is low, and they were edited using the crappy editor that came with the phone (trying to find a decent editor for 3gpp vids is hard, as is finding a converter) So basically it sounds and looks pretty bad, is out of sync and has been overall poorly put together. But you must admit that some of the musicianship is pretty freakin' cool...

This one's a bit Mathsy, but it is a good one...

Alright, assuming we have 26 letters, 10 numbers and 34 additional characters to be chosing from, an awesome grand total of 70. Now, assume that we can have any combination of letters, up to a maxium of 20 (which is the Bebo maximum). For 20 characters we can have 70^20 combinations. This is the massive number of 7.97922663 × 10^36. Now we can add that to the number of combinations for 19, 18, 17 etc, down to three, the minimum Bebo allows. That's 8.0948676 × 10^36, which is a very large number. (In fact I don't know how exact this figure is, it's possible that my calculator doesn't work this high, and I'll try to verify these figures at some point.) Now, there are 6 billion people in the world, and if we divide our number of combinations by 6 billion, we get 1.3491446 × 10^27. That's the number of Bebo accounts each.

Now I believe that the message said that there are only 568 names left. A strange figure considering the calculations, but anyway. Lets assume that everyone on Bebo has a .hotmail, .msn, .gmail, .googlemail, .yahoo, .btinternet or one of 50 other types of e-mail account. E-mail addresses are much less friendly than Bebo, so allow less characters, and hence have fewer names. But lets assume they're all 20 characters long, and allow 37 different characters (which most do.) Thats 2.31 * 10^31 different names each. Now we have 56 different e-mail endings, so we have 1.2936 × 10^33 different e-mail addresses. Which isn't actually enough to cover every Bebo name, so I wonder how many other e-mail addresses must be in use on this site to have actually taken up so many names.

Finally, Bebo was set up in January 2005 (as far as I'm aware...) Since that was about a year and a half ago, 47 335 389 seconds will have went by. Now, this means that every person in the world would have to set up 2.85018171 × 10^19 accounts every second from the day of launch. Now I for one don't have time for that sort of behaviour, and I don't know many people who have, so I can safely assume that the message was a bit of a hoax. Oh well, better luck next time...

Peace, Dee