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In the US, there is a longstanding tradition of determining who gets to sit in the seat next to the driver of a motor vehicle. In order to claim that seat, one must "call shotgun" according to a set of standard rules.

To call shotgun is to, at minimum, yell out "shotgun" while approaching the vehicle. The specific rules are the subject of much heated but good natured debate. A number of websites claim to have the official rules, but clearly only a free and open consensus site such as Misplaced Pages has the moral and intellectual right to make that claim.

Therefore, by the powers vested in Misplaced Pages by the present King of France, the following rules are hereby decreed: