Subject: Murphy’s Laws (Page 6)

Security isn’t. Management can’t. Sales promotions don’t. Customer assistance doesn’t. Worker’s won’t.

Everybody wants to peel his own banana.

When walking a dog, be sure then animal is smaller than you.

In a bureaucratic hierarchy, the higher up the organization the less people appreciate Murphy's Law.

1. The more tangled your line is, the better the fishing is around you. 2. The time available to go fishing shrinks as the fishing season draws nearer. 3. The least experienced fisherman always catches the biggest fish.
Corollary: The more elaborate and costly the equipment, the greater chance of having to stop at the fish market on the way home.

Almost everything in life is easier to get into than out of.

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

Consistency is always easier to defend than correctness.

If a thing cannot be fitted into something smaller than itself, some dope will do it.

1. Anyone can make a decision given enough facts. 2. A good manager can make a decision without enough facts. 3. A perfect manager can operate in perfect ignorance.

If you don't say it, they can't repeat it.

Progress is made on alternate Fridays.

Whenever you cut your fingernails, you will find a need for them an hour later.

Thinly sliced cabbage.

You can't win; You can't break even; You can't quit.

If your project doesn't work, look for the part you didn't think was important.

If only one price can be obtained for any quotation, the price will be unreasonable.

Incoming fire has the right of way.

No matter which side of door the cat or dog is on, it's the wrong side.

You can throw a burnt match out the window of your car and start a forest fire, but you can use two boxes of matches and a whole edition of the Sunday paper without being able to start a fire under the dry logs in your fireplace.

The bigger the man, the less likely he is to object to caricature.