Subject: Murphy’s Laws (Page 17)

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The child that divides gets last pick.

Children Murphy’s Laws

Success always occurs in private, and failure in full view.

Failure Murphy’s Laws Problems Success

All buses heading in the opposite direction drive off the face of the earth and never return.

Activities Murphy’s Laws Travel

Bad habits will cancel out good ones. Example: The orange juice and granola you had for breakfast will be canceled out by the cigarette you smoked on the way to work and the candy bar you just bought.

Murphy’s Laws

The first pull on the cord ALWAYS sends the drapes in the wrong direction.

Murphy’s Laws Things

Crowded lifts (elevators) smell different to people with restricted growth.

Characteristics Murphy’s Laws Things

If it says “one size fits all,” it doesn’t fit anyone.

Clothing Murphy’s Laws

The comfort of turning 49 is the realization that you are now too old to die young.

Age Death Murphy’s Laws Old

If it jams, force it; if it breaks, it needed replacing anyway.

Accidents Failure Murphy’s Laws

If a piece of buttered toast falls, it will land face down.

Food/Drink Murphy’s Laws

 It's hard to be nostalgic when you can't remember anything.

History Memory Murphy’s Laws

Anything can be made to work if you fiddle with it long enough.

Murphy’s Laws

No matter what stage of completion one reaches in a North Sea (oil) field, the cost of the remainder of the project remains the same.

Money Murphy’s Laws

Once the pin is pulled, Mr. Grenade is not our friend.

Military Murphy’s Laws

To promise not to do a thing is the surest way in the world to make a body want to go and do that very thing.

Murphy’s Laws

The most expensive component is the one that breaks.

Murphy’s Laws Problems

Assumption is the mother of all screw-ups.

Murphy’s Laws

If everything seems to be coming your way, you're probably in the wrong lane.

Characteristics Murphy’s Laws Situations

1. Trial balances don't.
2. Working capital doesn't.
3. Liquidity tends to run out.
4. Return on investments won't.

Money Murphy’s Laws

The First Law of Economists: For every economist, there exists an equal and opposite economist.
The Second Law of Economists: They're both wrong.

Murphy’s Laws

Everything you read in the newspapers is absolutely true except for that rare story of which you happen to have firsthand knowledge.

Characteristics Communication Honesty Murphy’s Laws Truth