Ok, I have searched and found nothing on the dope. Has this been covered?
Where did Murphy’s Law come from. Who was he a mythical figure a fable or what.
What’s your favorite Law? I found this list. I work in an environment were I could come up with a lit of my own but don’t have a witty sense of humor.
This link says Edsel Murphy was an engineer on an Air Force project. I can’t be certain it’s true, but I’ve heard that story before.
My favorite (and it’s on the list you link to) is O’Toole’s commentary: Murphy was an optimist.
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I like this one:
It is impossible to make anything foolproof because fools are so ingenious.
Although I usually think of it as “It’s impossible to make anything idiot-proof because the idiots always find a way.” Which is sort of my motto at work.
Wikipedia expands on that claim, but refers to the man as Edward A. Murphy, Jr. I’m guessing the “Edsel” may have been a joking reference to the much-ballyhooed but spectacularly unsuccessful automobile of that name.
Incidentally, Gaudere neglected to mention that he’s the author of a law that has also made it to Wikipedia’s pages:
According to Karl Kruszelnicki in Fidgeting Fat, Exploding Meat & Gobbling Whirly Birds Edward A. Murphy was an airforce captain who designed a harness to study G-forces. Each sensor could be installed in two ways and one unfortunate time all 16 sensors had been installed upside down after a Dr. Stapp had endured what he thought was record forces. Captain Murphy declared “If there are two or more ways to do something and one of those results in catestrophe, then someone will do it that way.” The key was the “if”. The goal was to make things so that there was only one way: the right way. That principle became highly publicized throughout the aerospace industry.
Karl K. btw cites several sources: Science; Scientific American, etc. - for his claims.
Hmm … interesting. So this Murphy guy must be dead by now, right?
I have often had the urge to kill the man and I wouldn’t want to actually follow through on that.
*The Fastest Man on Earth. It’s basically everything you ever wanted to know about the history of Murphy’s Law. It’s a good read. (Of course, I used to live in the area and I worked at Edwards AFB; so I’m biased. 
) I started a thread about the origins of Murphy’s Law about a year and a half ago, but I don’t think there were any replies. Someone else posted a Murphy’s Law thread a few months later.
Huh. Not sure how I messed up the code, but the link does work.
Great link thanks for the info.
I saw had you had the Lat/Lon for your location. Is it Birch Bay?
Just curious from 37 47’ N, 122 25’ W
My favorite is Cole’s Law. All cabbage must be shredded.
Glad to provide the link. I found it to be an interesting article.
Yes, I’m in Birch Bay. Where are you? San Francisco? Do you have a link to a lat/lon decoder?
Yeah, I live in SF. I use a gps allot but I don’t use lat/lon. I do like finding things so when I saw the condenses it was like FIND ME. The program that I use is Map Source used with Garmin gps.
I’m partial to “The legibility of a text is inversly proportional to it’s importance” (or however it’s worded), and I kept thinking about it whilst studying, as I kept coming across pages that were either in very light print (our book is photocopied) or that had the last line or two cropped off.
Years ago I wrote a note to a friend. At the bottom I wrote “This is very important. Remember to…” and I wrote some stuff on the next line. Then I tore the bottom off of the paper so that the recipient could see that something had been written after “this is very omportant”, but was torn off. Hilarity ensued. (IOW: “Gotcha ya!” 
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For “it’s” number 1, It’s its.
I suspect the administrator’s spellcheck may be doing this, though. “Fighting Ignorance Since 1973”