Post making contest 1.0

This is a weird dog. Say hello to a weird dog.

This weird dog violates rules 1, 3, 4, and 5.

What if I were to say "Welcome to the Space Consortium"?

What if I were to say, this post violates rules 1, 3, and 4.

Never mind Ix - this thread might as well be called "the thread of regret and mistakes", 'cause I think everyone's cocked up their rules somehow. Don't sweat it! For what it's worth, that rule 5 is clever in its simplicity and I had I had the time to just keep clipping your posts down until they failed I'd like to think I'd have got it? And I reckon rule 2 would have been fine once I switched to Roman numerals...

...I was about to ask who was going next, but well lookie here, we've got rules already!

This post violates rules 1 and 4.