Subject: Murphy’s Laws (Page 64)

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Fuses never blow during daylight hours.
Corollary: Only after fuses blow do you discover the flashlight batteries are dead and you’re out of candles, or matches, or both.

Murphy’s Laws Things

When confronted by a difficult problem, you can solve it more easily by reducing it to the question, "How would the Lone Ranger have handled this?"

Murphy’s Laws Problems

Every instructor assumes that you have nothing else to do except study for that instructor’s course.

Education Learning Murphy’s Laws

Infinity is one lawyer waiting for another.

Government Law Lawyers Murphy’s Laws Time

If you drop a full can of beer, and remember to rap the top sharply with your knuckle prior to opening, the ensuing gush of foam will be between 89 and 94 percent of the volume that would splatter you if you didn't do a damned thing and went ahead and pulled the top immediately.

Alcohol Beer Food/Drink Murphy’s Laws Situations

The more trivial your research, the more people will read it and agree.
Corollary: The more vital your research, the less people will understand it.

Education Murphy’s Laws

You can’t get here from there.

Murphy’s Laws

Anything is easier to take apart than it is to put together.

Murphy’s Laws Things

When things just can't possibly get any worse, they will.

Murphy’s Laws

Everyone who does not work has a scheme that does.

Murphy’s Laws Work

It isn't that things will necessarily go wrong (Murphy's Law), but rather that they will take so much more time and effort than you think if they are not to go wrong.

Murphy’s Laws Problems Time

The only time you've had enough is when you've just finished.

Murphy’s Laws Sex

It always takes longer to get there than to get back.

Murphy’s Laws Time Travel

The real objective of a committee is not to reach a decision, but to avoid it.

Murphy’s Laws

The Course of Progress: Most things get steadily worse.
The Path of Progress: A shortcut is the longest distance between two points.

Murphy’s Laws Problems

In a family recipe that you discovered in an old book, the most vital measurement will be illegible.

Cooking Food/Drink Murphy’s Laws

Fat is lost last where it is wanted the least. Corollary 1: Fat is lost first from areas of high desirability.
Corollary 2: With time fat flows from areas of high to low desirability. – Hal Belknap, M.D.

Appearance Body Fat Murphy’s Laws

Only a bureaucracy can fight a bureaucracy.

Murphy’s Laws

If there is a possibility of several things going wrong, the one that will cause the most damage will be the one to go wrong

Corollary: If there is a worse time for something to go wrong, it will happen then.

Murphy’s Laws

A meeting is an event at which the minutes are kept and the hours are lost.

Murphy’s Laws Time

Any facts which, when included in the argument, give the desired result, are fair facts for the argument.

Beliefs Facts Murphy’s Laws