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Murphy’s Laws
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The inefficiency and stupidity of the staff corresponds to the inefficiency and stupidity of the management.
Post's Managerial Observation
Murphy’s Laws
Inefficiency
Management
The quality of a champagne is judged by the amount of noise the cork makes when it is popped.
Mencken and Nathan's Ninth Law of The Average American
Alcohol
Food/Drink
Murphy’s Laws
Champagne
When the camera focuses on a male athlete he will spit, pick or scratch.
Wagner's Law of Sports Coverage
Murphy’s Laws
Sports
Athletes
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.
Law of Restaurant Acoustics
Communication
Conversation
Murphy’s Laws
Speech
Restaurants
Restaurants
It's bad luck to be superstititious.
Law of Superstition
Beliefs
Murphy’s Laws
Luck
Superstition
Anyone taken as an individual is tolerably sensible and reasonable – as a member of a crowd, he at once becomes a blockhead.
Schiller's Dictum
Fools
Individuals
Intelligence
Murphy’s Laws
People
Crowds
The race is not always to the swift nor the battle to the strong – but that’s the way to bet.
Runyon's Second Law
Activities
Murphy’s Laws
Sports
Betting
Speed
Strength
The first sample is always the best.
Sells's Law
Murphy’s Laws
Samples
One of the greatest unsolved riddles of restaurant eating is that the customer usually gets faster service when the restaurant is crowded than when it is half empty; it seems that the less the staff has to do, the slower they do it.
Harris's Restaurant Paradox
Food/Drink
Murphy’s Laws
Crowds
Restaurants
Riddles
Speed
No matter what goes wrong, it will probably look right.
Scott's First Law
Murphy’s Laws
Problems
1. No action is without side-effects. 2. Nothing ever goes away. 3. There is no free lunch.
Commoner's Three Laws of Ecology
Murphy’s Laws
Everybody wants to build and nobody wants to do maintenance.
Vonnegut’s Venting
Murphy’s Laws
Kurt Vonnegut in “Hocus Pocus”
There is no proposition, no matter how foolish, for which a dozen Nobel signatures cannot be collected.
Nobel Effect
Ideas
Intelligence
Murphy’s Laws
Nobel Prize
Any member introducing a dog into the Society’s premises shall be liable to a fine of one pound. Any animal leading a blind person shall be deemed to be a cat.
London
,
Oxford Union Society
,
Rule 46
Animals
Cats
Dogs
Murphy’s Laws
The cost of the hairdo is directly related to the strength of the wind.
Anonymous
Appearance
Hair
Murphy’s Laws
A dropped object will fall with an acceleration of 32 feet per second per second, and if it is your wallet, it will make every effort to land in a public toilet.
Dave Barry
(1947 – ) American columnist & humorist
Accidents
Murphy’s Laws
Problems
Gravity
The follies which a man regrets most in his life are those which he didn’t commit when he had the opportunity.
Rowland's Law
Life
Murphy’s Laws
Situations
Follies
Opportunity
If two wrongs don't make a right, try three.
Nixon's Rule
Murphy’s Laws
Wrongs
Assumption is the mother of all screw-ups.
Wethern's Law
Murphy’s Laws
Assumption
The probability of winning is inversely proportional to the amount of the wager.
McGoon's Law
Money
Murphy’s Laws
Betting
Odds
The day of the big heat wave is the day the office air conditioning breaks down.
Norris's Law
Murphy’s Laws
Science/Weather
Air conditioning
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