Great, new member in the elite club of rules that make their own exception

I don't think it's the case here: "Stigler himself named the sociologist Robert K. Merton as the discoverer of "Stigler's law" to show that it follows its own decree, though the phenomenon had previously been noted by others.", from the wikipedia article.

I was thinking of this indeed, but felt I was already becoming a bit long winded. ;)