Murphy's Laws

[discntnt_irny_srcsm]

Name your favorite, relate a related story, add some verbal freestyle...



I recently came across this witty corollary: Once you pull the pin, mister grenade is not your friend.

[Xyzse]

1. Oooh, making this in to a game?

"Once you (verb) the (adjective), (title/prefix) (adjective) is _____."

I'll try to come up with a few, but for now:

-Once you turn the knob, Dr. Bidet is a mean @ss f-cker.

[discntnt_irny_srcsm]

2. It is impossible to make anything foolproof because fools are so ingenious.

[Xyzse]

3. That's true.

[Wolf Frankula]

4. Don't Forget the Brontosaurus Principle and the Syrakosia Rule

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The Brontosaurus Principle: Up to a point, the bigger the better. After that point, the bigger the worse.

The Syrakosia Rule: Anything designed to do everything will not do one thing well. Named after the Syrakosia, an ancient ship designed to be a royal yacht, a grain freighter and a battleship. It was too slow and clumsy to be a battleship, to expensive to operate to be a grain freighter and too crowded and uncomfortable to be a royal yacht.

Wolf

[discntnt_irny_srcsm]

9. The glass...

...for the optimist, is half full.
...for the pessimist, is half empty.
...for the engineer, is twice as big as it needs to be.

[sarge43]

5. If it sounds too good to be true, it isn't.

One "aw shit" cancels a hundred "attaboys".

The number of alligators is in direct ratio to the difficulty of draining the swamp.

Never let a mechanical object know you're in a hurry.

[discntnt_irny_srcsm]

7. The more durable your equipment is, the further away from civilization you'll be when it fails.

[sarge43]

11. White Mountain NH variation

That four wheel drive and fancy equipment will just get you lost farther out, usually shortly before the nor'esterly arrives.

[trof]

6. If it can go wrong, it will.

[discntnt_irny_srcsm]

8. Murphy's Law states: If it can go wrong, it will. Summer's law says: What do you mean "IF"???

[sarge43]

10. O'Toole's corollary: And at the worst possible moment. nt