Subject: Murphy’s Laws (Page 33)

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Most jobs resemble a sled dog team: no one gets a change of scenery, except the lead dog.

Animals Dogs Murphy’s Laws Situations Work

When somebody drops something, everybody will kick it around instead of picking it up.

Murphy’s Laws

The more food you prepare, the less your guests eat.

Food/Drink Murphy’s Laws

If you don't care where you are, you ain't lost.

Murphy’s Laws Places Situations

To estimate the time it takes to do a task, estimate the time you think it should take, multiply by two, and change the unit of measure to the next highest unit. (Example: allocate two days for a one-hour task)

Murphy’s Laws Time Work

Nothing is as easy as it looks.

Murphy’s Laws

There is always one more son of a bitch than you counted on.

Murphy’s Laws People Situations

The length of a meeting rises with the square of the number of people present.

Murphy’s Laws

The only way to make up for being lost is to make record time while you are lost.

Activities Autos Driving Murphy’s Laws

If you try hard enough you can always manage to boot yourself in the posterior.

Murphy’s Laws Self

The quantity which must be multiplied by, divided by, added to or subtracted from the answer you get to give the answer you should have got.

Murphy’s Laws

The number of adjectives and verbs that are added to the description of a menu item is in inverse proportion to the quality of the dish.

Food/Drink Murphy’s Laws

Virtue is just vice at rest.

Characteristics Murphy’s Laws

The compromise will always be more expensive than either of the suggestions it is compromising.

Money Murphy’s Laws

The hidden flaw never remains hidden.

Murphy’s Laws

An ounce of image is worth a pound of performance.

Murphy’s Laws

The quality of a champagne is judged by the amount of noise the cork makes when it is popped.

Alcohol Food/Drink Murphy’s Laws

Never change your plans because of the weather.

Murphy’s Laws Science/Weather

An unbreakable toy is good for breaking other toys.

Murphy’s Laws Things

Expressways aren’t.

Autos Murphy’s Laws Things

No experiment is ever a complete failure – it can always serve as a negative example.

Failure Murphy’s Laws Problems