Subject: Murphy’s Laws (Page 76)

Density of fire increases proportionally to the curiousness of the target.

Beauty times brains equals a constant.

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

Competence always contains the seed of incompetence.

If you use a pole saw to saw a limb while standing on an aluminum ladder borrowed from your neighbor, the limb will fall in such a way as to bend the ladder before it knocks you to the ground.

In any group of eagles, you will find some turkeys.

The success of any venture will be helped by prayer, even in the wrong denomination.

The degree of failure is in direct proportion to the effort expended and to the need for success.

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

Don’t draw fire, it irritates the people around you.

When confronted by a difficult problem, you can solve it more easily by reducing it to the question, "How would the Lone Ranger have handled this?"

There is no job so simple that it cannot be done wrong.

Misery no longer loves company. Nowadays it insists on it.

The only things that start on time are those that you're late for.

It is a mistake to let any mechanical object realize that you are in a hurry.

Paper is always strongest at the perforations.

Some people fish in the Sea of Life without bait.

Anything dropped in the bathroom falls in the toilet.

Infinity is one lawyer waiting for another.

This will hurt me more than it hurts you.

All five-second grenade fuses will burn down in three seconds.