Barring spelling and grammar eccentricities, that’s pretty much the list I remember. Although I recall the law you quoted as being, “constants aren’t, variables won’t.”
(Oh, and the name: I stole it from my brother, who frequently used “Otto da Fe” when he needed a throwaway name for a multiple-choice question. It started here, then made a stopover at Jay Ward Enterprises [Baron Otto Matic being the nemesis of Tom Slick]. Perhaps not the most bizarre etymology in the history of user names, but a bit on the unusual side.)
It’s recorded in The Guinness Book of World Records 1998 that a garden snail called Archie covered a 13 inch course in 2 minutes at the 1995 World Snail Racing Championships, held in Longhan, England.
1 centimetre per minute extrapolates to 13 inches per 33 minutes so Archie improved on that time by a factor of 16.5.
Of course I don’t rule out the possibility that Archie was bred specifically for speed. No details are available concerning his sire (or dam) but if one or both of them were top class sprinters it’s easy to imagine their offspring producing quick times over sprint distances like 13".
Anyway, far from dawdling along at a furlong per fortnight Archie could clearly cover this distance in less than 24 hours.
OK, how funny is it that Oliver Smoot went on to run ANSI and the ISO? When I first heard the origin of the smoot in the 80s, I thought I rembered hearing he had attended the dental school.
Both of these appear in Arthur Bloch’s book Murphy’s Law, but I don’t think that was first published until 1977, so it’s probably not the origin of “furlongs per fortnight”.