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Murphy’s Laws
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Never share a foxhole with anyone braver than you are.
Murphy's First Military Law
Military
Murphy’s Laws
Bravery
Foxhole
Committee reports dealing with wages, salaries, fringe benefits, facilities, computers, employee parking, libraries, coffee breaks, secretarial support, etc., always call for dramatic expenditure increases.
Martin's Exclusion (to Martin's Law of Committees)
Money
Murphy’s Laws
Committees
The only way to make up for being lost is to make record time while you are lost.
Rule of the Rally
Activities
Autos
Driving
Murphy’s Laws
Auto rallies
Being lost
An object will fall so as to do the most damage.
Law of Selective Gravity (The Buttered Side Down Law)
Murphy’s Laws
The volume of paper expands to fill the available briefcases.
Jerry Brown
(1938 – ) U.S. governor (California) & politician
Murphy’s Laws
Work
Briefcases
Paper
The first ninety percent of the task takes ninety percent of the time, and the last ten percent takes the other ninety percent.
Ninety-ninety Rule of Project Schedules
Murphy’s Laws
Time
Work
Radios will fail as soon as you need fire support desperately
Corollary: Radar tends to fail at night and in bad weather, and especially during both
A Murphy's Military Law
Communication
Murphy’s Laws
No matter how strong the breeze when you leave the dock, once you have reached the furthest point from port the wind will die.
Deal's Second Law of Sailing
Murphy’s Laws
Sports
Sailing
Wind
As soon as you mention something, if it's good, it goes away; if it's bad, it happens.
The Unspeakable Law
Characteristics
Communication
Murphy’s Laws
Speech
Bad
Good
Everyone wants to be noticed but no one wants to be stared at.
Law of Human Quirks
Murphy’s Laws
Recognition
Whatever women do, they must do it twice as well as men to be thought half as good.
Whitton's Law
Characteristics
Murphy’s Laws
People
Women
Twice as well
In a family recipe that you discovered in an old book, the most vital measurement will be illegible.
First Law of Kitchen Confusion
Cooking
Food/Drink
Murphy’s Laws
Recipes
The one course you must take to graduate will not be offered during your last semester.
Seits's Law of Higher Education
Education
Murphy’s Laws
Courses
Secrecy is the enemy of efficiency, but don’t let anyone know it.
Beville’s Rule of Secrecy in Business
Murphy’s Laws
Richard Beville
Secrecy
The first time you go out after your wife’s birthday, you will see the gift you gave her marked down fifty percent.
Corollary: If she’s with you, she’ll assume you chose it because it was cheap.
Murphy's Second Law for Husbands
Husbands
Money
Murphy’s Laws
Shopping
Wives
Birthdays
Gifts
Only after locking your toolbox/shed at the end of a DIY job do you find another tool to return to your toolbox/shed.
Oliver's Tool Rule - Part 2
Murphy’s Laws
Things
Time
Toolbox
The speed of an oncoming vehicle is directly proportional to the length of the passing zone.
Reece's Second Law
Activities
Driving
Murphy’s Laws
Science/Weather
Speed
Whatever you want, you can’t have, what you can have, you don’t want.
Anonymous Murphy’s Law
Murphy’s Laws
You climb the ladder of success easier when you lay it flat.
Dietvorst's Law
Murphy’s Laws
Success
Unlimited warranties are usually neither.
Shea’s Discovery
Murphy’s Laws
Bill Shea
Warranties
Check to see if you any words out.
The 19 Rules for Good Riting - 16
Communication
Language
Murphy’s Laws
Reading/Writing
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