Subject: Murphy’s Laws (Page 40)

The one time during the day you lean back and relax is the one time the boss walks by.

The repairman will never have seen a model quite like yours before.

Food consumed standing up always has ten times the calorific intake of food consumed sitting down.

The amateur is the one with all the answers.

If you are forward of your position, the artillery will fall short.

Being in politics is like being a football coach: you have to be smart enough to understand the game and dumb enough to think it’s important.

What will get you promoted on one level will get you killed on another.

Passengers on elevators constantly rearrange their positions as people get on and off so there is at all times an equal distance between all bodies.

Social innovations tend to the level of minimum tolerable well-being.

Experience varies directly with equipment ruined.

Once the erosion of power begins, it has a momentum all its own.

There are never enough hours in a day, but always too many days before Saturday.

The reliability of machinery is inversely proportional to the number and significance of any persons watching it.

A Woman's Rule of Thumb: If it has tires or testicles, you're going to have trouble with it.

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

The best shots happen immediately after the last frame is exposed.

 It's hard to be nostalgic when you can't remember anything.

No matter how bad you are playing, it is always possible to play worse.

Those most opposed to serving on committees are made chairmen.

No matter how many times you've had it, if it's offered, take it, because it'll never be quite the same again.

Committee reports dealing with wages, salaries, fringe benefits, facilities, computers, employee parking, libraries, coffee breaks, secretarial support, etc., always call for dramatic expenditure increases.