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Variations on Murphys law

Posted: Tue Apr 13, 2004 4:35 am
by William Ohmsford
  1. The Law of Common Sense: Never accept a drink from a urologist.

  2. The Law of Reality: Never get into fights with ugly people, they have nothing to lose.

  3. The Law of Self Sacrifice: When you starve with a tiger, the tiger starves last.

  4. The Law of Volunteering: If you dance with a grizzly bear, you had better let him lead.

  5. The Law of Avoiding Oversell: When putting cheese in a mousetrap, always leave room for the mouse.

  6. The Law of Motivation: Creativity is great, but plagiarism is faster.

  7. Boob's Law: You always find something in the last place you look.

  8. Wailer's Law: Nothing is impossible for the man who doesn't have to do it himself.

  9. Law of Probable Dispersal: Whatever hits the fan will not be evenly distributed.

  10. Law of Volunteer Labor: People are always available for work in the past tense.

  11. Conway's Law: In any organization there is one person who knows what is going on. That person must be fired.

  12. Iron Law of Distribution: Them that has, gets.

  13. Law of Cybernetic Entomology: There is always one more bug.

  14. Law of Drunkenness: You can't fall off the floor.

  15. Heeler's Law: The first myth of management is that it exists.

  16. Osborne's Law: Variables won't; constants aren't.

  17. Main's Law: For every action there is an equal and opposite government program.

  18. Weinberg's Second Law: If builders built buildings the way programmers wrote programs, then the first woodpecker that came along would have destroyed civilization.