Subject: Murphy’s Laws (Page 66)

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Anytime you wish to demonstrate something, the number of faults is proportional to the number of viewers.

Murphy’s Laws People Problems

The time of departure will be delayed by the square of the number of people involved.

Murphy’s Laws People Time

An executive will always return to work from lunch early if no one takes him.

Food/Drink Murphy’s Laws Work

The weight of your pack increases in direct proportion to the amount of food you consume from it; if you run out of food, the pack weight goes on increasing anyway.

Activities Murphy’s Laws

Never forget that your weapon was made by the lowest bidder.

Arms Military Money Murphy’s Laws

Whatever you want, you can’t have, what you can have, you don’t want.

Murphy’s Laws

The chances of anybody doing anything are inversely proportional to the number of other people who are in a position to do it instead.

Murphy’s Laws

The better the four-wheel drive, the further away you'll be when you get stuck.

Autos Murphy’s Laws Things

Expenditure rises to meet income.

(1909 – 1993) British naval historian & author
Money Murphy’s Laws

If you have always done it that way, it is probably wrong.

Murphy’s Laws Problems

In a surplus labor economy, the squeaking wheel does not get the grease; it gets replaced.

Murphy’s Laws Occupations Work

Anything worth doing is worth doing in excess.

Murphy’s Laws

1. Dust breeds 2. One's roommate (who has early classes) has an alarm clock that is louder than God's own. 3. When one has an early class, one's roommate will invariably enter the space late at night and suddenly become hyperactive, ill, violent, or all three.

Murphy’s Laws

If it’s clean, it isn’t laundry.

Murphy’s Laws

Like other occult techniques of divination, the statistical method has a private jargon deliberately contrived to obscure its methods from nonpractitioners.

Communication Language Murphy’s Laws Science/Weather

1. The last gas station for 50 miles will be closed when you get there. 2. At the moment of any departure, the level of gas in your tank depends entirely on how late you are. 3. You only run out of gas after your wife tells you to stop for gas before you run out.

Autos Murphy’s Laws Things Travel

It works better if you plug it in.

Murphy’s Laws

Spend sufficient time in confirming the need and the need will disappear.

Murphy’s Laws Time

The easiest way to find something lost around the house is to buy a replacement.

Murphy’s Laws Things

When the plane you are on is late, the plane you want to transfer to is on time.

Activities Murphy’s Laws Things Time Travel

The squeaky wheel gets replaced.

Murphy’s Laws Problems Situations