# Murphy's Law

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**Post date:** [September 18, 2003, 1:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/murphys-law/202268/1 "2003-09-18T01:18:16Z")

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Ever wonder if there was a real Murphy behind “Murphy’s Law” – “Anything that can go wrong, will go wrong”?

[Wonder no more!](http://www.improb.com/airchives/paperair/volume9/v9i5/murphy/murphy0.html)

This is a four-part article, and the last two installments won’t be printed for another week. I won’t spoil the story by posting excerpts from it here, but I will say that the real Murphy was Captain Edward Aloysius Murphy, Jr. He was at the famed Edwards Air Force Base (where I used to work, decades later) in 1947 when the “Law” came about…