Murphy

I generally hate people who discover laws! I mean sooner or later, its going to make it into some text book and God knows your going to have to study the damn thing!

But now one 'law-maker' i truly respect would be Murphy.

Tried googling [Googling is using the popular search engine Google.com to look up someone's name in an effort to find out more about them, betcha didnt know tht ;o)] him and this is what i came up with!

''Commander J. Murphy USN was a procurement officer for the US Navy in the 1930's.He was in charge of the procurement of aircraft.When monitoring the design and development of new aircraft, he tried to instill simplicity of maintenance into the likes of Douglas and Grumman.Apparently one of his most belabored expressions was:"If an aircraft fitter on one of our carriers can re-install a serviced component wrongly, then one day he will."Gradually, this got changed into the more familiar version we know today.''

So getting down to the simplified familiar version.

"If anything can go wrong, it will"

There has never, ever been so much truth in a single sentence. Go ahead, hope that you wont run out of petrol for tht last stretch of road. Or better still, pray tht the queue at the doctor's is short as you need to get to work early. Go ahead, hope and all the best to you!

Here are some popular corollaries to the law, i keep it pinned up on my softboard, and read it like a prayer. Life just doesnt seem so terrible when you know tht the law is applicable to everyone and the whole world and it isnt just u! ;o)

1) If anything can go wrong it will and at the most inopportune time.

2)If there is a possibility of several things going wrong at once, then rest assured, the one tht will cause the most damage will be the one to go wrong, first.

3)If anything just cannot go wrong, dont worry it will anyway!

4)If you percieve that there are 4 possible ways in which something can go wrong and circumvent these, then a 5th way, unprepared for will promptly develop.And oh, believe me, it will be impossible to fix the fifth fault, without breaking the fix on one or more of the first four.

5)Left to themselves, things dont improve! They just go from bad to worse.

6)If everything seems to be going well, chances are, you have just overlooked something.

7)The hidden flaw, trust me, never stays hidden for long.

8)In nature, nothing is ever right. Therefore, if everything is going right ... something is wrong.

Laugh.. sometimes thats all that makes the world go round!

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