Subject: Murphy’s Laws (Page 30)

Never create a problem for which you do not have the answer.

Corollary: Create problems for which only you have the answer.

Once the erosion of power begins, it has a momentum all its own.

Just because your doctor has a name for your condition doesn't mean he knows what it is.

The mountain gets steeper as you get closer.

Frothingham’s Corollary: The mountain looks closer than it is.

The easy way is always mined.

If you can't fix it, feature it.

How to locate the slow-moving traffic lane or check-out land: Get in it.

Any experiment is reproducible until another laboratory tries to repeat it.

If you want to kill any idea in the world today, get a committee working on it.

An object will fall so as to do the most damage.

Some object to the fan dancer, others to the fan.

Fat is lost last where it is wanted the least. Corollary 1: Fat is lost first from areas of high desirability.
Corollary 2: With time fat flows from areas of high to low desirability. – Hal Belknap, M.D.

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

People who park on the cast side of a football stadium will invariably have seats on the west side.

A lone dime always gets the number nearly right.

If the facts do not conform to the theory, they must be disposed of.

Pocket calculator batteries that have lasted all semester will fail during the math final.

When a body is immersed in water, the telephone will ring.

You cannot tell for certain, ahead of time, which side of the bread to put the butter on.

Anything worth doing is worth doing in excess.

Give a small boy a hammer and he will find that everything he encounters needs pounding.