Subject: Murphy’s Laws (Page 5)

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In any dealings with a collective body of people, the people will always be more tacky than originally expected.

Murphy’s Laws People

Never drink anything that’s still on fire.

Alcohol Food/Drink Murphy’s Laws

A $300 picture tube will protect a 10¢ fuse by blowing first.

Murphy’s Laws Problems

1. If you can get to the faulty part, you won't have the tool to get it off. 2. If you can get the part off, the parts house will have it back ordered. 3. If it's in stock, it didn't need replacing in the first place.

Autos Murphy’s Laws Things

The more cordial the buyer’s secretary, the greater the odds that the competition already has the order.

Murphy’s Laws

A clean tie attracts the soup of the day.

Clothing Food/Drink Murphy’s Laws

Expenditure rises to meet income.

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Money Murphy’s Laws

A motion to adjourn is always in order.

Murphy’s Laws

Trouble strikes in series of threes, but when working around the house the next job after a series of three is not the fourth job – it's the start of a brand new series of three.

Murphy’s Laws Problems Work

If a headline ends in a question mark, the answer is “no.”

Headlines Murphy’s Laws

Say no… then negotiate.

Murphy’s Laws

The other line moves faster.

Activities Murphy’s Laws Shopping

Ideas endure and prosper in inverse proportion to their soundness and validity.

Ideas Intelligence Murphy’s Laws Things

When one is trying to be elegant and sophisticated, one won't.

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Murphy’s Laws Problems Situations

In a restaurant with seats which are close to each other, one will always find the decibel level of the nearest conversation to be inversely proportional to the quality of the thought going into it.

Communication Conversation Murphy’s Laws Speech

The inevitable result of improved and enlarged communications between different levels in a hierarchy is a vastly increased area of misunderstanding.

Communication Murphy’s Laws

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

Food/Drink Murphy’s Laws

Those who live closest arrive latest.

Activities Murphy’s Laws Time Travel

If there are two or more ways to do something, and one of those ways can result in a catastrophe, then someone will do it.

Murphy’s Laws

He who hesitates is probably right.

Murphy’s Laws

The only thing worse than a husband who never notices what you cook or what you wear is a husband who always notices what you cook and what you wear.

Appearance Cooking Food/Drink Husbands Marriage Murphy’s Laws