David often forwards these jokes to me. I particularly like the funny ones (LOL). The last one was titled Murphy's Laws, Part 1, which sparked my blog Expanding Murphy's Law.
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Well, I just received an email from David with the subject line: Murphy's Laws, Part 2 (or "Part Deux" for the French speakers amongst our number). The contents of this email were as follows:
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Murphy's Laws: Part 2
- You can never tell which way the train went by looking at the track.
- Logic is a systematic method of coming to the wrong conclusion with confidence.
- All great discoveries are made by mistake.
- Nothing ever gets built on schedule or within budget.
- A meeting is an event at which minutes are kept and hours are lost.
- A failure will not appear in a unit until after it has passed final inspection.
- Some people manage by the book, even though they don't know who wrote the book or even which book.
- The primary function of the design engineer is to make things difficult for the fabricator and impossible for the serviceman.
- If there is a possibility of several things going wrong, the one that will cause the most damage will be the one to go wrong.
- Matter will be damaged in direct proportion to its value.
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Several of these brought a wry smile to my face, but the one that really struck a chord was #7. How about you? Have you had any real-life experiences that directly map onto one of these "laws"? And can you suggest any additional items we should add to the list?
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