the complete Murphys Law

[cajunron]

The Complete Unabridged Rules of Murphy's Law

1. Murphy's Law: If anything can go wrong, it will.
2. Nothing is as easy as it looks.
3. Everything takes longer than you think.
4. Left to themselves, things tend to go from bad to worse.
5. If there is a possibility of several things going wrong, the one that will cause the most damage will be the one.
6. Nature always sides with the hidden flaw.
7. It always costs more than first estimated.
8. If you try to please everybody, somebody will be disappointed.
9. It is easier to get involved in something than to get out of it.
10. Every solution breeds new problems.
11. Whenever you set out to do something, something else must be done first.
12. If you perceive that there are four possible ways in which a procedure can go wrong and circumvent these, then a fifth way will promptly develop.
13. If you're feeling good, don't worry, you'll get over it.
14. It is impossible to make anything fool-proof, because fools are so ingenuous.
15. If you tinker with anything long enough, it will break.
16. By making things absolutely clear, people will become confused.
17. The more complex the idea or technology, the more simple-minded is the opposition.
18. The more urgent the need for a decision, the less apparent becomes the identity of the decision-maker.
19. If there is a 50 percent chance of success, that means there is a 75 percent chance of failure.
20. Interchangeable parts won't.
21. In any computation, the figure that is obviously correct will be the source of error.
22. Blame will never be placed if enough people are involved.
23. No matter what happens, someone will credit a pet theory.
24. A fail-safe circuit will destroy all others.
Murphy's Social Theory: If in the course of several months, only three worthwhile social events take place, they will all fall on the same evening.
Murphy's Law of Thermodynamics: Things get worse under pressure.
Murphy's Philosophy: SMILE- tomorrow will be worse!

[rfknauss]

So true!

[Lion]

What a list...yikes!!!