I’m surprised nobody’s mentioned the one where, if anyone comes into a thread saying “I can’t believe nobody’s mentioned XXXX”, it is likely that at least one person, if not multiple people, have mentioned XXXX. I even came across it today in the live albums thread in Cafe Society, with someone mentioning not seeing U2’s Under a Blood Red Sky mentioned.
see post 26…
just kidding
Any TV commercial that includes a phone number is a piece of crap at best, or a scam at worst.
Ha! You got me!
Picked up from another book of rules:
- the amount of effort it takes to get into trouble is only a fraction of the amount of effort it takes to get out of trouble.
The Butter Side Down Rule (a version of Murphy’s)
- If you drop a piece of buttered toast, it will land butter side down every time.
Mode’s Law of Luck
- Fortune favors the prepared AKA the harder I work, the luckier I get.
As it hasn’t been spelled out, Gaudere’s Law:
- For any post criticizing a previous post’s grammar, spelling, or usage, the writer is guaranteed to make a similar or greater error in the same manner.
I can’t remember which user this one is named after, but it refers to questions on Orthodox Judaism:
- all questions regarding Orthodox Judaism will be posted after sunset Friday.
My version of “slow is smooth, smooth is fast” is “make haste slowly”.
I forgot one …
The amount of people watching you is directly proportional to the stupidity of your actions.
After observing that Newton’s Laws, Kepler’s Laws, The Laws of Thermodynamics, and others tend to be bunched in threes, I came up with CalMeacham’s Third Law:
“Laws tend to come grouped in threes.”
I’m still working on the first two laws. It’s a kind of “Hi, Opal” thing, although I came up with this long before this Board was around.
I like this one. A lot.
Foxtrot’s Law: No matter when you go to a fast-food drive-thru, chances are pretty high that the car in front of you is ordering a huge meal for several people.
My dad’s: Quality of movie x Number of ads = Constant.
Rocketeer’s First Law of Auto Troubleshooting: It’s always electrical.
It’s amazing what you can get away with if you look like you should be doing it.
It’s amazing what you can do if you don’t think about doing it.
I have developed two laws in my lifetime, although they’re not exactly Murphy’s Law type.
The West Law of Consistent Mediocrity: If you want to make a billion dollars, make a product that is consistently mediocre. I developed this law when I was eating dinner at a Pizza Hut, but it also applies to Bud Light and many other products.
The West Law of Nocturnal Immensity: When camping in a tent, any animal heard near the tent will sound at least 2x larger than it actually is.
Dendarii Dame’s Rule: (Specific to me)
I prefer fiction to non-fiction. However, if an author writes both fiction and non-fiction, I will prefer their non-fiction. Applies to fantasy and SF authors in particular: Le Guin, Bradbury, Asimov…
Certainly, and I recently mentioned it in a thread:
Throughout history, everyone was a bastard.
Obviously not each person — most maybe — but nations, tribes, states, organizations, rulers and peoples. Perhaps they had to be, and it is no reason not to follow or admire them; but all did bad things to those they felt needed it.
If you know what you’re doing, it’s not an adventure.
CivilGuy’s Law:
If I knew yesterday what I know today, I still wouldn’t be as wise as I’ll probably be tomorrow.
When it rains, it pours.
The more laudatory the adjectives in the company’s name, the higher the odds they’re run by right bastards.
This is not the only “law” our family has, but it’s probably in the top three. “Never say ‘it’ll only take a few minutes’”.
Everything can be fixed in software.
Miracle-working is interchangeable. If you can fix someone’s computer problem over the phone with one sentence of description, you can fix their broken car in the same manner.
Yep. just spent 3 weeks in Germany with my Wife. We ate and drank anything we wanted. Walked everywhere it seems. It was a ‘wurst’ vacation, beer and sausages and cheese and bread. On our feet 10 hours a day. Lost a couple of pounds.
I know this is not original, but the one saying I like, that is sort of like a ‘Murphy’s’ law is - “Experiance is what you get when you don’t get what you want”