Subject: Murphy’s Laws (Page 25)

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When you drop coins, the pennies will fall nearby, while all the others will roll out of sight.

Murphy’s Laws

The chance of the bread falling with the butter side down is directly proportional to the value of the carpet.

Food/Drink Murphy’s Laws

When a problem goes away, the people working to solve it do not.

Murphy’s Laws People Problems

It is after you have lost your teeth that you can afford to buy steaks.

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Food/Drink Life Murphy’s Laws

If not controlled, work will flow to the competent man until he submerges.

Murphy’s Laws People Problems Work

A dropped power tool will always land on the concrete instead of the soft ground (if outdoors) or the carpet (if indoors) – unless it is running, in which case it will fall on something it can damage (like your foot).

Accidents Murphy’s Laws Things

Sin now – pray later.

Murphy’s Laws

An expert is one who knows more and more about less and less until he knows absolutely everything about nothing.

Murphy’s Laws

The remaining distance to your chosen campsite remains constant as twilight approaches.

Activities Murphy’s Laws Science/Weather

Don’t put off until tomorrow what you can get done sometime next week.

Murphy’s Laws Time

Careful planning has no affect on either Part 1 or Part 2.

Murphy’s Laws

The incidence of anything worthwhile is either 15-25 percent or 80-90 percent.

Murphy’s Laws Situations

Important things that are supposed to happen do not happen, especially when people are looking.

Murphy’s Laws

You never want the one you can afford.

Money Murphy’s Laws

The chance of forgetting something is directly proportional to… to…

Intelligence Memory Murphy’s Laws

A chicken doesn't stop scratching just because the worms are scarce.

Murphy’s Laws

Like other occult techniques of divination, the statistical method has a private jargon deliberately contrived to obscure its methods from nonpractitioners.

Communication Language Murphy’s Laws Science/Weather

Tolerances will accumulate unidirectionally toward maximum difficulty of assembly.

Murphy’s Laws Problems

Law expands in proportion to the resources available for its enforcement.

Government Murphy’s Laws

If a piece of buttered toast falls, it will land face down.

Food/Drink Murphy’s Laws

Virtue is its own punishment.

Characteristics Murphy’s Laws