yes rules can be rules
The octet rule is a simple rule of thumb that states that atoms tend to combine in such a way that they each have eight electrons in their valence shells, giving them the same electron configuration...
well if the #1 rule is no rule then that means they're no rules so that rule wouldn't be a rule so that mean that thy're are no rules. so no.
Mummar Gaddifi but he be dead now.
No it was not a rule in 1956. Rule 4.03 became a rule years later when Keith Hernandez revolutionized the game of baseball, Fact !