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 Antinomianism to the Fifth Law of Unreliability: Although this law is correct in many situations, i have proven one does not need a computer to really foul things up.

From my “Murphy’s Law” desk calendar archives thanks to Aunt Evelyn, Uncle Pipey, and cousin Nancy:

Murphy’s All Purpose Excuse for Workers: “That’s the way we’ve always done it.

Goofy guy’s addition to Murphy’s All Purpose Excuse for Workers: These words follow the new boss’s declaration, “We’re going to change things around here..

From my “Murphy’s Law” desk calendar archives thanks to Aunt Evelyn, Uncle Pipey, and cousin Nancy:

First Law of  Repair: You can’t fix it if it ain’t broke.

Goofy guy’s excuse based  on the First Law of Repair: This is a good law in that all of those things that won’t work out in my garage are not broken because i can’t fix them.

From my “Murphy’s Law” desk calendar archives thanks to Aunt Evelyn, Uncle Pipey, and cousin Nancy:

Law of Probable Dispersal: Whatever hits the fan will not be evenly distributed.

Goofy guy’s comment on the Law of Probable Dispersal: This is a law most neglected or ignored by politicians, social movements, and most of the world.

From my “Murphy’s Law” desk calendar archives thanks to Aunt Evelyn, Uncle Pipey, and cousin Nancy:

Cohn’s First Law: In any bureaucracy, paperwork increases as you spend more and more time reporting on the less and less you do.

Goofy guy’s experience with Cohn’s First Law: Then eventually, you are reporting on nothing since your are doing nothing but paperwork, and that’s okay because no one reads your paperwork but then holds meetings to reduce paperwork in which you have to keep minutes and provide to all in paperwork (and now on the computer) for the paperwork  you are attempting to reduce but never will since you are now doing nothing but paperwork.

Example: In the 1970’s, the Navy came out with a force-wide program to reduce reports. A large committee was formed and assigned the task. They met and met and met and decided they needed to know the extent of the problem. So the first radio message they sent to the entire fleet was for each command to submit a report with a list of all the reports they were required to submit. As i recall, not one report was eliminated, thus resulting reporting all the reports plus one.