The Little Richard Rule

Doth it is proclaimed (err, by me at least): no man should be allowed to say “shut up” as the defense for his worldview–or heck, be allowed to say “shut up” at all, unless his name is Richard Wayne Penniman, and he’s also capable of writing as brilliant a line as “Wop-bop-a-loo-bop-a-lom-bam-boom”.