ADVANCED MURPHOLOGY
MURPHY'S LAW:
If anything can go wrong ,it will.
SCHNATTERLY'S SUMMING UP OF THE COROLLARIES:
If anything can't go wrong , it will.
SILVERMAN'S PARADOX:
If Murphy's Law can go wrong, it will.
THE EXTENDED MURPHY'S LAW:
If a series of events can go wrong, it will do
so in the worst possible sequence.
FARNSDICK'S COROLLARY TO THE FIFTH COROLLARY:
After things have gone from bad to worse, the
cycle will repeat itself.
GATTUSO'S EXTENSION OF MURPHY'S LAW:
Nothing is ever so bad that it can't get worse.
LYNCH'S LAW:
When the going gets tough everyone leaves.
EVANS' AND BJORN'S LAW:
No matter what goes wrong, there is always somebody
who knew it would.
BENEDICT'S PRINCIPLE( formerly Murphy's Ninth
Corollary):
Nature always sides with the hidden flaw.
LAW OF REVELATION:
The hidden flaw never remains hidden.
LANGSAM'S LAWS:
1. Everthing depends.
2. Nothing is always.
3. Everthing is sometimes.
HELLRUNG'S LAW:
If you wait, it
will go away.
Shavelson's Extension:
. . . having done
it's damage.
Grelb's Addition:
If it was bad
it will be back.
GROSSMAN'S MISQUOTE OF H.L. MENCKEN:
Complex problems have simple, easy-to-understand
wrong answers.
DUCHARME'S PRECEPT:
Opportunity always knocks at the least oppurtune
moment.
FLUGG'S LAW:
When you need to knock on would then you realise
the world is made of aluminium and vinyl.
IMBESI'S LAW OF THE CONSERVATION OF FILTH:
In order for something to become clean, something
else must become dirty.
Freeman's Extension:
. . . but you can get everything dirty without
getting anything clean.
FIRST POSTULATE OF ISO-MURPHISM:
Things equal to nothing else are equal to each
other.
BOOB'S LAW(from Murphy's Law):
You alway's find something in the last place
you look.
LAW OF THE SEARCH:
The first place you look for anything is the
last place you would expect to find it
MARYANN'S LAW:
You can always find what you're not looking for.
RUNE'S RULE:
If you don't care where you are, you ain't lost.
COIT-MURPHY'S STATEMENT ON THE POWER OF NEGATIVE
THINKING:
It is impossible for an optimist to be pleasantly
surprised.
FERGUSON'S PRECEPT:
A crisis is when you can't say "let's forget
the whole thing."
THE UNAPPLICABLE LAW:
Washing your car to make it rain doesn't work.
MURPHY'S SAVING GRACE:
The worst is enemy of the bad.
THE CARDINAL CONNUNDUM:
An optimist believes we live in the best of all
possible worlds.
A pessimist fears this is true.
NAESER'S LAW:
You can make it foolproof, but you can't make
it damnfoolproof.