From my “Murphy’s Law” desk calendar archives thanks to Aunt Evelyn, Uncle Pipey, and cousin Nancy:
Shirley’s Law: Most people deserve each other.
Goofy guy’s contradiction to Shirley’s Law: i know several folks who don’t.
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“Murphy’s Law”
From my “Murphy’s Law” desk calendar archives thanks to Aunt Evelyn, Uncle Pipey, and cousin Nancy:
Wethern’s Law of Suspended Judgement: Assumption is the mother of all screwups.
Goofy guy’s recall of Wethern’s Law: Best explained by Tony Randall’s character Felix Unger in the “Odd Couple” television series during a courtroom scene when Felix wrote “Assume” on the flip chart, divided it into his syllabic breakdown, and proclaimed, “‘Ass-u-me’ makes an ass out of you and me.”
“Murphy’s Law”
From my “Murphy’s Law” desk calendar archives thanks to Aunt Evelyn, Uncle Pipey, and cousin Nancy:
Fifth Law of Unreliability: To err is human, but to really foul things up requires a computer.
Goofy guy’s comment on the Fifth Law of Unreliability: This human can foul things up exponentially when he has a computer.
“Murphy’s Law”
From my “Murphy’s Law” desk calendar archives thanks to Aunt Evelyn, Uncle Pipey, and cousin Nancy:
Cornuelle’s Law: Authority tends to assign jobs to those least able to do them.
Goofy guy’s disagreement concerning Cornuelle’s Law: When i was loaded down with a whole bunch of tasks because of my position on a staff, my friend and Admin Officer Al Pavich asked my boss why he kept giving me more things to do; the boss replied, “If you want something to get done, you give it to the busiest worker.”
“Murphy’s Law”
From my “Murphy’s Law” desk calendar archives thanks to Aunt Evelyn, Uncle Pipey, and cousin Nancy:
Robert’s Axiom: Only errors exist.
Berman’s Corollary to Robert’s Axiom: One man’s error is another man’s data.
Goofy guy’s corollary to Berman’s corollary to Robert’s Axiom: There are a lot of other men using my errors as their data.