Subject: Murphy’s Laws (Page 14)

Automatic: If something is automatic, that simple means that you can’t repair it yourself.

If you try hard enough you can always manage to boot yourself in the posterior.

If you’re early, it’ll be cancelled. If you knock yourself out to be on time, you will have to wait. If you’re late, you will be too late.

General solutions to specific problems become specific problems requiring general solutions.

Keep up with the Grabowskis… you'll never make enough to keep up with the Joneses.

One cannot make an omelette without breaking eggs – but it is amazing how many eggs one can break without making a decent omelette.

At any public relations luncheon, the quality of the food is inversely related to the quality of the information.

The primary function of the design engineer is to make things difficult for the fabricator and impossible for the serviceman.

The shortest distance between any two points on a golf course is a straight line that passes directly through the center of a very large tree.

The more an item costs, the farther you have to send it for repairs.

The length of any meeting is inversely proportional to the length of the agenda for that meeting.

Performance is directly affected by the perversity of inanimate objects.

Less is more.

The number of different hypotheses erected to explain a given biological phenomenon is inversely proportional to the available knowledge.

Two wrongs are only the beginning.

Any significant military action will occur at the junction of two or more map sheets.

Liars get caught by the tale.

If you need four screws for the job, the first three are easy to find.

Trivial matters are handled promptly; important matters are never resolved.

When the going gets tough, everyone leaves.

No man's life, liberty, or property are safe while the legislature is in session.