Murphy's Lesser-Known Laws

[whistle]

~~Light travels faster than sound. This is why some people appear bright until you hear them speak.

~~He who laughs last, thinks slowest.

~~Change is inevitable, except from a vending machine.


~~Those who live by the sword get shot by those who don't.

~~Nothing is foolproof to a sufficiently talented fool.


~~The 50-50-90 rule: Anytime you have a 50-50 chance of getting something right, there's a 90% probability you'll get it wrong.


~~If you lined up all the cars in the world end to end, someone would be stupid enough to try to pass them, five or six at a time, on a hill, in the Fog.


~~If the shoe fits, get another one just like it.


~~The things that come to those who wait will be the things left by those who got there first.


~~Give a man a fish and he will eat for a day. Teach a man to fish and he will sit in a boat all day drinking beer.


~~Flashlight: A case for holding dead batteries.


~~The shin bone is a device for finding furniture in a dark room.


~~A fine is a tax for doing wrong. A tax is a fine for doing well.


~~When you go into court, you are putting yourself in the hands of 12 people who weren't smart enough to get out of jury duty.

[CaliforniaPeggy]

1. My dear whistle!

These are terrific!

I think I've seen some of them before..........but not all!

Wonderful!

Thank you for posting them........and for making me laugh!

:rofl: :rofl:

[whistle]

2. A friend emailed this list to me this morning and like you I had heard

...a few of these before, but most were new to me. Glad you enjoyed them.

Actually, I think there is really only one Murphy's Law:

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Murphy's law is a popular adage in Western culture that most likely originated at Edwards Air Force Base in 1948. The Law broadly states that things will go wrong in any given situation, if you give them a chance. "If there's more than one way to do a job, and one of those ways will result in disaster, then somebody will do it that way." It is most often cited as "Whatever can go wrong, will go wrong" (or, alternately, "Whatever can go wrong will go wrong, and at the worst possible time," or, "Anything that can go wrong, will").

Murphy's Law is sometimes confused with Finagle's Corollary, which is also known as Sod's law.

Per the 1948 theory, in American culture the law was named somewhat sarcastically<1><2> by Stapp's Team working on Project MX981 at Edwards Air Force Base after Major Edward A. Murphy, Jr., a development engineer contributing support measurement technology for a brief time on rocket sled experiments done by the United States Air Force in 1948 with inveterate adage collector and the law's undoubted populizer Doctor/Colonel John Paul Stapp, a former next-door neighbor and friend of Murphy.


History of Murphy's LawThe most detailed examination of the origins of the Law is the book A History of Murphy's Law by author Nick T. Spark. Spark concludes that differing recollections years later by various participants make it impossible to pinpoint who exactly coined the phrase. The Law supposedly stems from an attempt to use new measurement devices developed by the eponymous Edward Murphy, and was coined in adverse reaction to something Murphy said when his devices failed to perform and eventually cast into its present form prior to a press conference some months later, the first ever (of many) given by Colonel Stapp, The fastest man on earth.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murphy's_law

[Oeditpus Rex]

3. Doubleday's First Law:

"If you throw a fast ball with insufficient speed, someone will smack it out of the park with a stick."

~Jim Bouton, "Ball Four"