Sminky's joke about 'the law' is a classic bit of throwaway humour that reveals an underlying reality, namely that some people who inhabit Mudcat invest disproportionate weight into a 'process' or 'observable phenomenon' that makes sense from within the confines of a particular group but has little or no currency outside it. It's not a law on any statute or subject to the judicial system but resembles a law to those who wish to see it upheld within the larger trope.

In such allusions asking for examples is an internal derailment, not a proof exposable to cold fact. One might as well ask for three posts by Jim Carroll that don't exhibit didactism, or three that do exhibit a sense of humour - it leads us nowhere.