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Christine Bagley-Jones wrote on Tue, Jan 24, 2012 05:00 PM UTC:
Murphy's laws (some of them)

If anything can go wrong, it will

If anything just cannot go wrong, it will anyway

If you perceive that there are four possible ways in which something can go
wrong, and circumvent these, then a fifth way, unprepared for, will
promptly develop
Corollary: It will be impossible to fix the fifth fault, without breaking
the fix on one or more of the others

Left to themselves, things tend to go from bad to worse

If everything seems to be going well, you have obviously overlooked
something

Things get worse under pressure.

Everything goes wrong all at once.

Matter will be damaged in direct proportion to its value

In nature, nothing is ever right. Therefore, if everything is going right
... something is wrong.

Anything that can go wrong will go wrong.

It is impossible to make anything foolproof because fools are so
ingenious.

Nothing is as easy as it looks.

Everything takes longer than you think.

Everything takes longer than it takes.

If anything simply cannot go wrong, it will anyway.

Whenever you set out to do something, something else must be done first.

Every solution breeds new problems.

no matter how perfect things are made to appear, Murphy's law will take
effect and screw it up.

You will always find something in the last place you look.

Just when you think things cannot get any worse, they will.

The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new
discoveries, is not 'Eureka!' but 'That's funny...'
Said by Isaac Asimov

Knowing Murphy's Law will never help.

To know Murphy's Law is to draw its attention.

If for some reason Murphy's Law fails to operate, it is building up for
something big.

Charles Gilman wrote on Wed, Jan 25, 2012 07:26 AM UTC:
'You will always find something in the last place you look.'

Well naturally, because once you find it, you're not going to go on
looking for it in places where you hadn't looked before you found it!

Christine Bagley-Jones wrote on Wed, Jan 25, 2012 07:47 AM UTC:
hehe yeah, that's a funny one.
we should make up some 'murphy laws' for chess, here's one from me,
hehe.

if you have a won endgame, the chances of losing are in direct proportion
to the amount of people watching.

Charles Gilman wrote on Wed, Feb 29, 2012 07:31 AM UTC:
Another angle that I've noticed is that web pages load fastest during the
sports news, when I'd otherwise take a break from both computer and radio
while the page was loading.

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