Wetten van Murphy
Getting rich...
Everyone has a scheme for getting rich that will not work.
Laws about shopping
No matter how long or how hard you shop for an item, after you've bought it, it will be on sale somewhere cheaper.
The other line always moves faster.
Looking for things...
You will always find something in the last place you look.
If your looking for more than one thing, you'll find the most important one last.
It is never in the last place you look. It is in the first place you look, but never discovered on the first attempt.
After you bought a replacement for something you've lost and searched for everywhere, you'll find the original.
You have to look where you lost it.
The greater the value of the rug...
The greater the value of the rug, the greater the probability that the cat will throw up on it.
More Laws of Selective Gravitation.
- A falling object will always land where it can do the most damage.
- A shatterproof object will always fall on the only surface hard enough to crack or break it.
- A paint drip will always find the hole in the newspaper and land on the carpet underneath (and will not be discovered until it has dried).
- A dropped power tool will always land on the concrete instead of the soft ground (if outdoors) or the carpet (if indoors) - unless it is running, in which case it will fall on something it can damage (like your foot).
- If a dish is dropped while removing it from the cupboard, it will hit the sink, breaking the dish and chipping or denting the sink in the process.
- A valuable dropped item will always fall into an inaccessible place (a diamond ring down the drain, for example) - or into the garbage disposal while it is running.
- If you use a pole saw to saw a limb while standing on an aluminum ladder borrowed from your neighbor, the limb will fall in such a way as to bend the ladder before it knocks you to the ground.
- If you pick up a chunk of broken concrete and try to pitch it into an adjacent lot, it will hit a tree limb and come down right on the driver's side of your car windshield.
More laws
More laws:
- Nothing is as easy as it looks.
- Everything takes longer than you think.
- Everything takes longer than it takes.
- If anything simply cannot go wrong, it will anyway.
- Whenever you set out to do something, something else must be done first.
- Every solution breeds new problems.
- No matter how perfect things are made to appear, Murphy's law will take effect and screw it up.
Addition to Murphy's Laws
In nature, nothing is ever right.
Therefore, if everything is going right ... something is wrong
Research supports a specific theory...
Research supports a specific theory depending on the amount of funds dedicated to it.