Subject: Murphy’s Laws (Page 71)

If it’s clean, it isn’t laundry.

Make it too tough for the enemy to get in and you can't get out.

Automatic weapons – aren’t.

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

An unexpectedly easy-to-handle sequence of events will be immediately followed by an equally long sequence of trouble.

Any change looks terrible at first.

Toothaches tend to start on Saturday night.

No matter how careful one is in resealing the inner liner in a cereal box, it will tear where it is glued to the box.

In letters themes reports articles and stuff like that we use commas to keep strings apart.

There's nothing to scratch but the surface.

Everything else causes cancer in rats.

The strength of the turbulence is directly proportional to the temperature of your coffee.

Everybody is somebody else's weirdo.

The shortest distance between two points is a downward spiral.

Speak with authority; however, expound only on the obvious and proven facts.

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

The direction of take-off will be opposite that of the final destination.

Every organization has an allotted number of positions to be filled by misfits.

Corollary: Once a misfit leaves, another will be recruited.

The speed of exit of a civil servant is directly proportional to the quality of his service.

The problem-solving process will always break down at the point at which it is possible to determine who caused the problem.

1. If it is green or it wiggles – it is Biology.
2. If it stinks – it is Chemistry.
3. If it doesn’t work – it is Physics.