Law of Mechanical Repair: After your hands become coated with grease, your nose will begin to itch or you'll have to pee.
Law of the Workshop: Any tool, when dropped, will roll to the least accessible corner.
Law of Probability: The probability of being watched is directly proportional to the stupidity of your act.
Law of the Telephone: If you dial a wrong number, you never get a busy signal.
Law of the Alibi: If you tell the boss you were late for work because you had a flat tire, the very next morning you will have a flat tire.
Variation Law: If you change lines (or traffic lanes), the one you were in will start to move faster than the one you are in now.
Law of the Bath: When the body is fully immersed in water, the telephone rings.
Law of Close Encounters: The probability of meeting someone you know increases when you are with someone you don't want to be seen with.
Law of the Result: When you try to prove to someone that a machine won't work, it will.
Law of Biomechanics: The severity of the itch is inversely proportional to the reach.
Law of the Theatre: At any event, the people whose seats are furthest from the aisle arrive last.
Law of Coffee: As soon as you sit down to a cup of hot coffee, you boss will ask you to do something which will last until the coffee is cold.
Murphy's Law of Lockers: If there are only two people in a locker room, they will have adjacent lockers.
Law of Rugs and Carpets: The chances of an open-faced jelly sandwich landing face down on a floor covering are directly correlated to the newness and cost of the carpeting.
Law of Location: No matter where you go, there you are.
Law of Logical Argument: Anything is possible if you don't know what you are talking about.
Brown's Law: If the shoe fits, it's ugly.
Oliver's Law: A closed mouth gathers no feet.
Wilson's Law: As soon as you find a product that you really like, they will stop making it.
Showing posts with label murphy's law. Show all posts
Showing posts with label murphy's law. Show all posts
Saturday, October 3, 2009
I Am The Law!
Labels:
brown's law,
funny,
humor,
murphy's law,
oliver's law,
probability,
wilson's law
Monday, March 16, 2009
Laws That Didn't Make it into Science Books
Murphys' Law: If anything can go wrong, it will.
O'Tooles' commentary of Murphys' Law: Murphy was an optimist.
The unspeakable Law:
As soon as you mention something...
...if it's good, it goes away.
...if it's bad, it happens.
Nonreciprocal Laws of expectations:
Negative expectations yield negative results.
Positive expectations yield negative results.
Howes' Law: Every man has a scheme that will not work.
Zymurgys' first law of evolving system dynamics: Once you open a can of worms, the only way to re-can them is to use a larger can.
Etorres' observation: The other line moves faster.
Skinners' constant (Flannigans' finangaling factor): The quantity which, when multiplied by, divided by, added to, or subtracted from the answer you get, gives you the answer you should have gotten in the first place.
Law of selective gravity: An object will fall so as to do the most damage.
9A. Jennings' corollary: The chance of the bread falling with the buttered side down is directly proportional to the cost of the carpet.
Borens' law: When in doubt, mumble.
The golden rule of arts and sciences: Whoever has the gold makes the rules.
Segals' law: A man with one watch knows what time it is. A man with two watches is never sure.
O'Tooles' commentary of Murphys' Law: Murphy was an optimist.
The unspeakable Law:
As soon as you mention something...
...if it's good, it goes away.
...if it's bad, it happens.
Nonreciprocal Laws of expectations:
Negative expectations yield negative results.
Positive expectations yield negative results.
Howes' Law: Every man has a scheme that will not work.
Zymurgys' first law of evolving system dynamics: Once you open a can of worms, the only way to re-can them is to use a larger can.
Etorres' observation: The other line moves faster.
Skinners' constant (Flannigans' finangaling factor): The quantity which, when multiplied by, divided by, added to, or subtracted from the answer you get, gives you the answer you should have gotten in the first place.
Law of selective gravity: An object will fall so as to do the most damage.
9A. Jennings' corollary: The chance of the bread falling with the buttered side down is directly proportional to the cost of the carpet.
Borens' law: When in doubt, mumble.
The golden rule of arts and sciences: Whoever has the gold makes the rules.
Segals' law: A man with one watch knows what time it is. A man with two watches is never sure.
Labels:
humor,
murphy's law,
One Life To Live,
satire
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