Subject: Murphy’s Laws (Page 48)

The severity of the itch is inversely proportional to the ability to reach it.

Exciting plays occur only while you are watching the scoreboard or out buying a hot dog.

Experience varies directly with equipment ruined.

The volume of paper expands to fill the available briefcases.

(1938 – ) U.S. governor (California) & politician

Murphy's Law was not propounded by Murphy, but by another man with the same name.

Make it sufficiently difficult for people to do something, and most people will stop doing it.

If you want to kill any idea in the world today, get a committee working on it.

1. Giving away baby clothes and furniture is a major cause of pregnancy. 2. Always be backlit. 3. Sit down whenever possible.

The number of stones in your boot is directly proportional to the number of hours you have been on the trail.

Any child who chatters nonstop at home will adamantly refuse to utter a word when requested to demonstrate for an audience.

Only at the start/re-start of a DIY job do you realise the need to return to your toolbox/shed to retrieve another tool.

The man who can smile when things go wrong has thought of someone he can blame it on.

Whenever an expert is confounded by a seemingly insoluble problem, the solution is immediately obvious to the first unqualified person who happens along.

Don't abbrev.

Whoever has the gold makes the rules.

Them what has – gets.

Once the pin is pulled, Mr. Grenade is not our friend.

Experiments should be reproducible… they should all fail in the same way.

The amount of intelligence on Earth is infinite; the population increases exponentially.

An original idea can never emerge from committee in the original.

An ounce of image is worth a pound of performance.