Subject: Murphy’s Laws (Page 75)

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If you drop a full can of beer, and remember to rap the top sharply with your knuckle prior to opening, the ensuing gush of foam will be between 89 and 94 percent of the volume that would splatter you if you didn't do a damned thing and went ahead and pulled the top immediately.

Alcohol Beer Food/Drink Murphy’s Laws Situations

Early to bed and early to rise makes a man tired in mid afternoon.

Activities Murphy’s Laws Sleep

1. All's well that ends.
2. A penny saved is a penny.
3. Don't leave things unfinishe

Communication Language Murphy’s Laws

If you don’t feel well, make an appointment to go to the doctor, by the time you get there you’ll feel better; but don’t make an appointment, and you’ll stay sick.

Doctors Health Murphy’s Laws

When a person says that, in the interest of saving time, he will summarize his prepared statement, he will talk only three times as long as if he had read the statement in the first place.

Communication Murphy’s Laws Speech Time

The cigarette smoke always drifts in the direction of the non-smoker regardless of the direction of the breeze.

Activities Murphy’s Laws Situations

Negative expectations yield negative results; positive expectations yield negative results.

Murphy’s Laws

Nothing is as easy as it looks.

Murphy’s Laws Problems

If you can keep your head when all about you are losing theirs, it’s just possible that you haven’t understood the situation.

Murphy’s Laws Situations

Inside every large problem is a small problem struggling to get out.

Murphy’s Laws Problems Situations

1. To get action out of management, it is necessary to create the illusion of a crisis in the hope it will be acted upon. 2. Management will select actions or events and convert them to crises. It will then over-react. 3. Management is incapable of recognizing a true crisis.

Murphy’s Laws Problems

There's nothing to scratch but the surface.

Murphy’s Laws

The first shall be last and the last shall be first, but if you're in the middle, you're stuck there.

Murphy’s Laws Problems Situations

Trust everybody, but cut the cards.

Characteristics Murphy’s Laws

If you think you're wrong, you're wrong

Corollary: If you think you're wrong, you're right.

Characteristics Murphy’s Laws Problems

Democracy is that form of government where everybody gets what the majority deserves.

Democracy Government Murphy’s Laws

Nothing is a temporary as that which is called permanent.

Corollary: Nothing is a permanent as that which is called temporary.

Murphy’s Laws

As soon as you’re doing what you wanted to be doing, you want to be doing something else.

Life Murphy’s Laws

Truck deliveries that normally take one day will take five when you are waiting for the truck.

Murphy’s Laws Situations

Two percent don’’t get the word.

Communication Murphy’s Laws

In a social situation, the most difficult thing to do is usually the right thing to do.

Murphy’s Laws