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Murphy’s Laws
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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.
Barber's First Law of Backpacking
Activities
Murphy’s Laws
Backpacking
Camping
Hiking
Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.
Clarke's Third Law
Murphy’s Laws
Arthur C. Clarke
Magic
Technology
There's no time like the present for postponing what you don't want to do.
Hecht’s Fourth Law
Murphy’s Laws
Procrastination
An object will fall so as to do the most damage.
Law of Selective Gravity (The Buttered Side Down Law)
Murphy’s Laws
The minute you sign a client is the minute you start to lose him.
Public Relations Client Turnover Law
Murphy’s Laws
Clients
If you allow someone to get in front of you, you both will have the same destination, and the other car will get the last parking space.
Athena’s Rule of Driving Courtesy
Driving
Murphy’s Laws
Remember on your walk through life, the grass made greener on the other side of the fence is caused by “pasture pies.”
Grandma Soderquist's First Observation
Murphy’s Laws
When putting things back together again, there will always be at least one piece left over that will not fit anywhere.
Stanley's Law of Taking Things Apart
Murphy’s Laws
Things
Parts
The more time you spend in reporting on what you are doing, the less time you have to do anything. Stability is achieved when you spend all your time doing nothing but reporting on the nothing you are doing.
Cohn's Law
Communication
Murphy’s Laws
Progress
The larger the project or job, the less time there is to do it.
Old Engineer's Law
Murphy’s Laws
Time
Projects
Any horizontal surface is soon piled up.
Ringwald's Law of Household Geometry
Murphy’s Laws
When eating an elephant, take one bite at a time.
Abrams' Advice
Eating
Food/Drink
Murphy’s Laws
Bite
Elephants
As soon as the stewardess serves the coffee, the airliner encounters turbulence.
Davis's Explanation of Roger's Law: Serving coffee on aircraft causes turbulence.
Roger's Law
Murphy’s Laws
Travel
Airlines
Merely because the group is in formation does not mean that the group is on the right course.
Gadarene Swine Law
Appearance
Murphy’s Laws
Groups
A cigarette placed in an ashtray will go out if you stay in the room; if you leave the room, the cigarette will topple to the table, burn through, and drop to the floor, where it will smolder until it descends to ignite the drapes in the room below.
Aunt Emmie’s First Law
Murphy’s Laws
Cigarette
From Owen Elliott’s Aunt Emmie
The most interesting paper will be scheduled simultaneously with the second most interesting paper.
Morris's Law of Conferences
Murphy’s Laws
Conferences
Papers
Strive to look tremendously important.
Spark's First Rule for Managers
Murphy’s Laws
Management
Get re-elected.
First Law of Office Holders
Elections/Voting
Government
Murphy’s Laws
Flying pests are more likely to enter the ears, eyes, nose and throat when
both
hands are in use.
Wright on Flying Insects
Animals
Murphy’s Laws
Problems
Insects
Jonathan Wright
No books are lost by loaning except those you particularly wanted to keep.
Fourteenth Corollary of Atwood's General Law of Dynamic Negative
Books
Communication
Murphy’s Laws
Reading/Writing
Lending
You can't fall off the floor.
Paul's Law
Murphy’s Laws
Problems
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