Murphy's Law
Murphy's Law states that:
- A slice of buttered bread will always land buttered side down.
- When you need something that is in a heap, it will be at the bottom of the heap, unless you start looking at the bottom, in which case it will be second from the top.
- The day you forget your umbrella is the day it pours with rain.
- When caught in a traffic jam, your lane will always be the slowest moving one. If you change lanes, your new lane will rapidly become the slowest moving one.
- Nothing can never go wrong
- The more foolproof something is, the more likely it is that there is a fool out there able to screw it up.
- If more than one thing can go wrong, the one that causes the most problems will be the one that goes wrong.
- If something could have gone wrong but didn't, it will turn out that it would have been better in the long run if it did.
- Nature always sides with the hidden flaw.
- Change is inevitable, except from a vending machine.
- All small valuable objects will disappear when set down.
- If you need something from your bag, you will find everything else in your bag before you find the thing you need.
- When you put on your pants without looking, they will always be backwards.
- The only time a cat will not land on its feet is when a buttered slice of bread is strapped to its back. In this case, the cat will land on its back. (An alternative law states that it will stop about a foot above the ground and hover there, spinning, trying to land on both its feet and the buttered side of the bread, simultaneously.)
- The time you have left to catch a flight is inversely proportional to the distance to the gate.
- If you deliberately pace yourself to be on time to an important event, something will happen to make you late.
- The 50/50/90 law: If there's a 50/50 chance of getting something good, theres a 90% chance of not getting it.
- A slice of buttered bread will always land buttered side down.
- When you need something that is in a heap, it will be at the bottom of the heap, unless you start looking at the bottom, in which case it will be second from the top.
- The day you forget your umbrella is the day it pours with rain.
- When caught in a traffic jam, your lane will always be the slowest moving one. If you change lanes, your new lane will rapidly become the slowest moving one.
- Nothing can never go wrong
- The more foolproof something is, the more likely it is that there is a fool out there able to screw it up.
- If more than one thing can go wrong, the one that causes the most problems will be the one that goes wrong.
- If something could have gone wrong but didn't, it will turn out that it would have been better in the long run if it did.
- Nature always sides with the hidden flaw.
- Change is inevitable, except from a vending machine.
- All small valuable objects will disappear when set down.
- If you need something from your bag, you will find everything else in your bag before you find the thing you need.
- When you put on your pants without looking, they will always be backwards.
- The only time a cat will not land on its feet is when a buttered slice of bread is strapped to its back. In this case, the cat will land on its back. (An alternative law states that it will stop about a foot above the ground and hover there, spinning, trying to land on both its feet and the buttered side of the bread, simultaneously.)
- The time you have left to catch a flight is inversely proportional to the distance to the gate.
- If you deliberately pace yourself to be on time to an important event, something will happen to make you late.
- The 50/50/90 law: If there's a 50/50 chance of getting something good, theres a 90% chance of not getting it.
posted by David | 11:51 pm
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