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Friday, December 14, 2012

All about Murphy's Law with cartoons, too

My home has been a working example of Murphy's Law lately, hence this post about it.

HowStuffWorks has an article by Josh Clark titled "How Murphy's Law Works."  Of note is that it's called Sod's Law in England.

There are sites dedicated to the subject.  The Complete Edition of Murphy's Laws gives an exhaustive glossary of the law, its corollaries and derivatives.  This one I experience on a regular basis:
O'Brian's Law
If you change lines, the one you just left will start to move faster than the one you are now in.
This cartoon is in Clay Bennett's archives:


An collection of cartoons by Diana Denny at The Saturday Evening Post contained this cartoon (all I know is it was published in the summer of 1971, can't read the cartoonist's signature):


And, lastly, here's a demotivational poster from quickmeme by rriverstone:


Have you noticed that social sites have started using the term karma?

-- Marge

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