Good old Murphy et al.

Captain Edward Murphy arbetade som konstruktör åt USAs  flygvapen. Vi har väl alla (?) hört om Murphy’s lagar, som t.ex:

Anything that can go wrong will go wrong.

.Nothing is as easy as it looks.

Everything takes longer than you think

If  there is a possibility of several things going wrong, the one that will cause the most damage will be the one to go wrong.

If there is a worse time for something to go wrong, it will happen then.

If anything simply cannot go wrong, it will anyway.

If you perceive that there are four possible ways in which a procedure can go wrong, and circumvent these, then a fifth way, unprepared for, will promptly develop.

Här är några regler och "lagar" till, men det är inte Murphy’s. Läs och begrunda:

Algren's Principles:

Never eat at a place called Mom's.

Never play cards with a man named Doc.

Canada Bill Jones's Law:

A Smith & Wesson beats four aces.                   

Army Law:

If  it moves, salute it; if it doesn't move, pick it up; if you can't pick it up, paint it.

Anthony's Law of Force:

Don't force it, get a larger hammer.

Berra's Law:

You can observe a lot just by watching.

Berson's Corollary of Inverse Distances:

The farther away from the entrance that you have to park, the closer the space vacated by the car that pulls away as you walk up to the door.

Cannon's Cogent Comment:

The leak in the roof is never in the same location as the drip.

Cannon's Comment:

If you tell the boss you were late for work because you had a flat tire, the next morning you will have a flat tire.

Dunn's Discovery:

The shortest measurable interval of time is the time between the moment one puts a little extra aside for a sudden emergency and the arrival of that emergency.

Blanchard's Newspaper Obituary Law:

If you want your name spelled wrong, die.

Harvard Law:

Under the most rigorously controlled conditions of pressure, temperature, volume, humidity, and other variables, any experimental organism will do as it damn well pleases.