bcheary Loc: Jacksonville, FL

Going the e-mail rounds.


MURPHY'S OTHER 15 LAWS

1. Light travels faster than sound. This is why some people appear bright until you hear them speak.


2. A fine is a tax for doing wrong. A tax is a fine for doing well.


3. He who laughs last, thinks slowest.

4. A day without sunshine is like, well, night.

5. Change is inevitable, except from a vending machine.

6. Those who live by the sword get shot by those who don't.

7. Nothing is foolproof to a sufficiently talented fool.

8. The 50-50-90 rule: Anytime you have a 50-50 chance of getting something right, there's a 90% probability you'll get it wrong.

9. It is said that if you line up all the cars in the world end-to-end, someone from Overland Park would be stupid enough to try to pass them.

10. If the shoe fits, get another one just like it.

11. The things that come to those who wait, may be the things left by those who got there first.

12. Give a man a fish and he will eat for a day. Teach a man to fish and he will sit in a boat all day drinking beer.

13. Flashlight: A case for holding dead batteries.

14 . God gave you toes as a device for finding furniture in the dark.

15. When you go into court, you are putting yourself in the hands of twelve people, who weren't smart enough to get out of jury duty.

TheShoe Loc: Lacey, WA

So if you get a shoe that fits your right foot. you are supposed to get another right shoe to wear on the left foot?

bcheary Loc: Jacksonville, FL

PAR4DCR Loc: A Sunny Place

Don

DirtFarmer Loc: Escaped from the NYC area, back to MA

Corollary to Murphy's Law:

You CANNOT use Murphy's Law to your advantage.

bcheary Loc: Jacksonville, FL

bcheary Loc: Jacksonville, FL

bikinkawboy Loc: north central Missouri

Most farmers will agree with #8 and the 50-50-90 rule. Remote hydraulic cylinders have two hoses and there are two couplers on the tractor. So you should have a 50-50 chance of connecting them correctly on the first try, right? Nope, that’s not how it actually works. And if you decide to swap hoses before hooking them up, thinking you will outsmart Murphy, you still have them wrong, meaning you would have been right the first time. As a result, if you grab the hoses and hook them up without thinking, they will be wrong 90% of the time. If you grab the hoses without thinking, but then think about it and swap them, you would have been right 90% of the time but after swapping them you will still be wrong 90% of the time.

The moral of the story is that not thinking or reasoning results in you being wrong most of the time. Thinking and reasoning still results in you being wrong most of the time. The only way to not be wrong is to do nothing, which nearly always results in you being wrong because you ignored the problem. Amusement parks learned that long ago, which is why you can go straight, turn right or turn left and you still end up in the same place, the gift shop.

Amtrain

This is exactly the same thing that happens when you have a thumb drive and you want to plug it into a USB port on your computer. You have a 50-50 chance that it is not upside down.

DirtFarmer Loc: Escaped from the NYC area, back to MA

I painted the couplings red and green and painted the hoses the same. That got me back to 50%.

riderxlx Loc: DFW area Texas

I have wondered who is Murphy?
Bruce.

raymondh Loc: Walker, MI

Fayle Loc: Seward, Alaska and Rionegro, Colombia

Another one:
Cole's Axiom states that "The sum of the intelligence on the planet is constant; The population is growing."

Fredrick Loc: Former NYC, now San Francisco Bay Area

Excellent!!

bcheary Loc: Jacksonville, FL