Subject: Murphy’s Laws (Page 5)

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There are no answers, only cross references.

Murphy’s Laws

The best way to find something you have lost is to buy a replacement.

(1918 – 2002) advice columnist
Murphy’s Laws Things

Nothing is so simple it cannot be misunderstood.

Murphy’s Laws

Confusion creates jobs.

Murphy’s Laws Work

The quality of a champagne is judged by the amount of noise the cork makes when it is popped.

Alcohol Food/Drink Murphy’s Laws

The one course you must take to graduate will not be offered during your last semester.

Education Murphy’s Laws

A meeting lasts at least 1 1/2 hours, however short the agenda.

Murphy’s Laws Time

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 more cordial the buyer’s secretary, the greater the odds that the competition already has the order.

Murphy’s Laws

When any mechanical contrivance fails, it will do so at the most inconvenient possible time.

Murphy’s Laws Problems Time

Any ship can be a minesweeper… once.

Arms Military Murphy’s Laws War

History teaches us that men and nations behave wisely once they have exhausted all other alternatives.

History Murphy’s Laws People Wisdom

While the difficulties and dangers of problems tend to increase at a geometric rate, the knowledge and manpower qualified to deal with these problems tend to increase linearly.

Murphy’s Laws Problems Science/Weather

All the postmasters in small towns read all the postcards.

Murphy’s Laws

Experiments should be reproducible… they should all fail in the same way.

Failure Murphy’s Laws Problems

Only someone who understands something absolutely can explain it so no one else can understand it.

Intelligence Murphy’s Laws Understanding

A parade should have bands OR horses, not both.

Murphy’s Laws

The length of a progress report is inversely proportional to the amount of progress.

Murphy’s Laws

The program you've been looking forward to all week will be preempted.

Entertainment Murphy’s Laws Television

1. If you want something badly, that's how you get it. 2. Many "get-rich-quick" schemes make millionaires – out of multi-millionaries.

Money Murphy’s Laws

The only time suppressive fire works is when it is used on abandoned positions.

Military Murphy’s Laws War