I'm a total rules lawyer myself & it can be a lot of fun playing the loophole game - as long as both people enjoy the verbal & mental sparring it involves. There's also the matter of a proper time & place for joking around versus following the spirit of the law.

I had a months-long rules lawyer game running with my dom that was just awesome! Well, ok, except for the fact that I never actually won. I tried everything - even going back in time to build loopholes into the rules he wrote. But he had created the uber rule that let him overwrite or change any of the other rules whenever he wanted, which was just totally unfair. Evil man! Every time I was sure I had him, out came rule 45(b)...