Subject: Murphy’s Laws (Page 39)

1. If you like it, they don't have it in your size. 2. If you like it and its in your size, it doesn't fit anyway. 3. If you like it and it fits, you can't afford it. 4. If you like it, it fits, and you can afford it, it falls apart the first time you wash it.

On successive charts of the same organization the number of boxes will never decrease.

If you have only one nail, it will bend.

Incompetence plus incompetence equals incompetence.

If you do something right once, someone will ask you to do it again.

Once you overcome your fear of public speaking, you’ll never be asked to speak again.

Don't worry… nobody gives a hoot anyway.

Some mistakes are too fun to make only once.

A Smith and Wesson beats four aces.

The fury engendered by the misspelling of a name in a (newspaper) column is in direct ratio to the obscurity of the mentionee.

Bravery is being the only one who knows you're afraid.

If you take something apart and put it back together enough times, eventually you will have two of them.

If you ask your husband to pick up five items at the store and then you add one more as an afterthought, he will forget two of the first five.

It isn't that things will necessarily go wrong (Murphy's Law), but rather that they will take so much more time and effort than you think if they are not to go wrong.

There are 32 points to the compass, meaning that there are 32 directions in which a spoon can squirt grapefruit; yet, the juice almost invariably flies straight into the human eye.

What this world needs is a damned good plague.

In a hierarchical organization, the higher the level, the greater the confusion.

Those who know the least will always know it the loudest.

It is much harder to find a job than to keep one.

If you leave the room, you're elected.

The hardness of the butter is proportional to the softness of the bread.