Subject: Murphy’s Laws (Page 59)

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Experience enables you to recognize a mistake when you make it again.

Mistakes Murphy’s Laws Problems

1. Fat expands to fill any apparel worn.
2. A fat person walks in the middle of the hall.

Appearance Body Fat Murphy’s Laws

If it looks easy, it's tough… if it looks tough, it's near impossible.

Characteristics Murphy’s Laws Situations

Needs are a function of what other people have.

Murphy’s Laws

If you don't say it, they can't repeat it.

Communication Murphy’s Laws Speech

However much a shower control may rotate, the degree of rotation required to change from ice-cold to scalding is never more than one millimeter.

(1957 – ) New Zealand writer
Murphy’s Laws Problems

Only after locking your toolbox/shed at the end of a DIY job do you find another tool to return to your toolbox/shed.

Murphy’s Laws Things Time

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

Entertainment Murphy’s Laws Television

Those who are most moral are farthest from the problem.

Murphy’s Laws Problems

The rush job you spent all night on won't be needed for at least two days.

Murphy’s Laws

Academic politics is the most vicious and bitter form of politics, because the stakes are so low.

Education Government Murphy’s Laws Politics

At any event, the people whose seats are furthest from the aisle arrive last.

Murphy’s Laws People

The amount of time required to complete a government project is precisely equal to the length of time already spent on it.

Government Murphy’s Laws Time

The more underdeveloped the country, the more overdeveloped the women.

Appearance Body Murphy’s Laws Places Women World

The accessibility, during recovery of small parts which fall from the work bench, varies directly with the size of the part and inversely with its importance to the completion of the work underway.

Murphy’s Laws Things Work

Each pronoun agrees with their antecedent.

Communication Language Murphy’s Laws Reading/Writing

Every program has at least one bug and can be shortened by at least one instruction — from which, by induction, one can deduce that every program can be reduced to one instruction which doesn't work.

Computers Murphy’s Laws Science/Weather Things

1. If you're wondering if you took the meat out to thaw, you didn't. 2. If you're wondering if you left the coffee pot plugged in, you did.

Cooking Food/Drink Murphy’s Laws

On the way to the corner, any dropped tool will first strike your toes.

Murphy’s Laws

The more carefully you plan a project, the more confusion there is when something goes wrong.

Murphy’s Laws

All battles are fought at the junction of two or more map sheets… printed at different scales.

Military Murphy’s Laws