Top Ten rules of laking

12. Don't pick a target who can't try to stop the laking. (a.k.a. injured people, those who can't swim, or people who have been drinking. Especially the last one...)

11. Take people's shoes off before you throw them in. That way, they have to put their shoes back on before they chase you down and exact revenge...lovingly, of course...

10. If it's someone's birthday, they should probably be laked. No questions asked.

9. Always empty people's pockets off before you lake them! (This way you can take their ID for free subway!)

8. Laking your RA's and SA is fun, but do remember that they are wayyyy better at laking than you are...

7. All people helping to lake someone are free game for being laked by the person being laked, other people laking the same person, or a third party that comes out of nowhere. (In other words, leave your cell phone in your room when you go-a-laking.)

6. Never lake girls wearing white T-shirts. (This one is for their emotional and your physical safety.)

5. Better yet, you should probably just never lake girls. (They have nails...and cooties...)

4. When laking, do it right. Don't drop someone off the side off the pier, where the sharp pointy rocks will have to break their fall. Toss them like a salad towards the raft!

3. If laking is inevitable, take someone with you. Then see # 1.

2. By the power vested in my as the Editor of the Flipside, I officially declare Laking Season...should involve the fact that it's supposed to be 70 degrees Fahrenheit next Wednesday...

1. It's perfectly acceptable, even encouraged, to lake back twice as good those who have laked you. (Twice as good is defined as thrown in twice, during a much colder night, or waking them up to lake them.)