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Ralph's Observation:
It is a mistake to allow any mechanical object to realize that you are in a hurry.
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Farnsdick's corollary:
After things have gone from bad to worse, the cycle will repeat itself.
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Firestone's Law of Forcasting:
Chicken Little only has to be right once.
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Manly's Maxim:
Logic is a systematic method of coming to the wrong conclusion with confidence.
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Cannon's Comment:
If you tell the boss you were late for work because you had a flat tire, the next morning you will have a flat tire.
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Murpny's Law:
If anything can go wrong, it will.
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Murphy's Corollary:
Left to themselves, things tend to go from bad to worse.
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Murphy's Corollary:
It is impossible to make anything foolproof because fools are so ingenious.
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Murphy's Constant:
Matter will be damaged in direct proportion to its value.
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Quantized Revision of Murphy's Law:
Everything goes wrong all at once.
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O'Toole's Commentary:
Murphy was an optimist.
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Scott's Second Law:
When an error has been detected and corrected, it will be found to have been correct in the first place.
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Finagle's First Law:
If an experiment works, something has gone wrong.
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Finagle's Third Law:
In any collection of data, the figure most obviously correct, beyond all need of checking, is the mistake.
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Finagle's Fourth Law:
Once a job is fouled up, anything done to improve it only makes it worse.
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Gumperson's Law:
The probability of anything happening is in inverse ratio to its desirability.
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Rudin's Law:
In crises that force people to choose among alternative courses of action, most people will  choose the worst one possible.
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Ginsberg's Restatement of the Three Laws of Thermodynamics:
You can't win. You can't break even. You can't quit.
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Ehrman's Commentary:
Things will get worse before they will get better. Who said things would get better?
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Howe's Law:
Everyone has a scheme that will not work.
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Zymurgy's First Law of Evolving Systems Dynamics:
Once you open a can of worms, the only way to recan them is to use a bigger can.
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Non-Reciprocal Law of Expectations:
Negative expectations yield negative results. Positive expectations yield negative results.
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Klipstein's Law:
You never find a lost article until you replace it.
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Glatum's Law of Materialistic Acquisitiveness:
The perceived usefulness of an article is inversely proportional to its actual usefulness once bought and paid for.
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Lewis' Law:
No matter how long or hard you shop for an item, after you've bought it, it will be on sale somewhere cheaper.
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The Airplane Law:
When the plane you are on is late, the plane you want to transfer to is on time.
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Etorre's Observation:
The other line always moves faster.
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Etorre's Ovservation:
The chance of the bread falling with the butter side down  is directly proportional to the value of the carpet.
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Hawkin's Theory of Progress:
Progress does not consist of replacing a theory that is wrong with one that is right. It consists of replacing a theory that is wrong with one that is more subtly wrong.
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Gold's Law:
If the shoe fits, it's ugly.
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Law of Reruns:
If you have watched a TV series only once, and you watch it again, it will be a rerun of the same episode.
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Gerrold's Laws of Infernal Dynamics:
1. An object in motion will be heading in the wrong direction.
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Gerrold's Laws of Infernal Dynamics:
2. An object at rest will be in the wrong place.
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Langin's Law:
If things were left to chance, they'd be better.
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Klipstein's Observation:
If you need n items of anything, you will have n - 1 in stock
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de la Lastra's Law:
After the last of 16 mounting screws has been removed from an access cover, it will be discovered that the wrong