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Universal Laws

Posted: Fri Aug 06, 2010 10:32 pm
by cougartex
1. Law of Mechanical Repair - After your hands become coated with grease, your nose will begin to itch.

2. Law of Gravity - Any tool, nut, bolt, screw, when dropped, will roll to the least accessible corner.

3. Law of Probability - The probability of being watched is directly proportional to the stupidity of your act.

4. Law of Random Numbers - If you dial a wrong number, you never get a busy signal and someone always answers.

5. Law of the Alibi - If you tell the boss you were late for work because you had a flat tire, the very next morning you will have a flat tire.

6. Variation Law - If you change lines (or traffic lanes), the one you were in will always move faster than the one you are in now (works every time).

7. Law of the Bath - When the body is fully immersed in water, the telephone rings.

8. Law of Close Encounters - The probability of meeting someone you know increases dramatically when you are with someone you don't want to be seen with.

9. Law of the Result - When you try to prove to someone that a machine won't work, it will.

10. Law of Biomechanics - The severity of the itch is inversely proportional to the reach.

11.. Law of the Theater and Hockey Arena - At any event, the people whose seats are furthest from the aisle, always arrive last. They are the ones who will leave their seats several times to go for food, beer, or the toilet and who leave early before the end of the performance or the game is over. The folks in the aisle seats come early, never move once, have long gangly legs or big bellies, and stay to the bitter end of the performance. . The aisle people also are very surly folk.

12. The Coffee Law - As soon as you sit down to a cup of hot coffee, your boss will ask you to do something which will last until the coffee is cold.

13. Murphy's Law of Lockers - If there are only two people in a locker room, they will have adjacent lockers.

14. Law of Physical Surfaces - The chances of an open-faced jelly sandwich landing face down on a floor, are directly correlated to the newness and cost of the carpet or rug.

15. Law of Logical Argument - Anything is possible if you don't know what you are talking about.

16. Brown's Law of Physical Appearance - If the clothes fit, they're ugly.

17. Oliver's Law of Public Speaking - A closed mouth gathers no feet.

18. Wilson's Law of Commercial Marketing Strategy - As soon as you find a product that you really like, they will stop making it.

19. Doctors' Law - If you don't feel well, make an appointment to go to the doctor, by the time you get there you'll feel better. But don't make an appointment, and you'll stay sick.

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Re: Universal Laws

Posted: Fri Aug 06, 2010 10:40 pm
by USA1
:smilelol5: "rlol"

Everyone of those are true! :lol:

Re: Universal Laws

Posted: Fri Aug 06, 2010 10:43 pm
by davidtx
cougartex wrote: 4. Law of Random Numbers - If you dial a wrong number, you never get a busy signal and someone always answers.
Back in the early nineties, I worked for a startup that was in the process of an IPO. Somebody was faxing an IPO related document to one of the lawyers and mis-dialed the number. Surprise, surprise, it went through to somebody's fax. I think it took quite a while before anybody even knew what happened. I don't remember what the remedy was, but nobody went to jail and we eventually had a successful IPO.

I wonder what the odds of that happening? Maybe Jim will tell me that it was common to allocate fax numbers out of their own pool.

Re: Universal Laws

Posted: Sat Aug 07, 2010 9:13 am
by LarryH
variation on #15

Anything is possible if some poor sap who works for you is the one who will actually do it.

Re: Universal Laws

Posted: Sat Aug 07, 2010 9:30 am
by joe817
That's GREAT cougartex! Thanks! "rlol" :smilelol5: :lol:

Re: Universal Laws

Posted: Sat Aug 07, 2010 11:06 am
by cheezit
AndyC wrote:
cougartex wrote:16. Brown's Law of Physical Appearance - If the clothes fit, they're ugly.
I'm a 31" waist - I can find pants that fit only very rarely :grumble

My wife joked that I'd have to start shopping in the kids' sections
30" I can get mine in student sizes. Its just not right. :oops:

Re: Universal Laws

Posted: Sat Aug 07, 2010 11:28 am
by SigOperator02
Those are great!

Re: Universal Laws

Posted: Sat Aug 07, 2010 11:37 am
by Kevinf2349
Lets us not forget the proverbial

Commen sense isn't

The quickest route between two points is the one you didn't take.....but the one your wife recommended. "rlol"

and lets us not forget..

Out of two possible solutions to a problem, the thrid is the one you should have used. :mrgreen:

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Re: Universal Laws

Posted: Sat Aug 07, 2010 11:58 am
by The Annoyed Man
cheezit wrote:
AndyC wrote:
cougartex wrote:16. Brown's Law of Physical Appearance - If the clothes fit, they're ugly.
I'm a 31" waist - I can find pants that fit only very rarely :grumble

My wife joked that I'd have to start shopping in the kids' sections
30" I can get mine in student sizes. Its just not right. :oops:
What ain't right is that your waist is the size of my thigh, and my butt looks like two kids fighting under a blanket. THAT's not right.
"rlol"

Re: Universal Laws

Posted: Sat Aug 07, 2010 5:38 pm
by cheezit
ya they go well with my size 6.5 shoes.
Man I wish I could hide a long slide .45 on me.
looks like the best Ill be able to do is a glock 26 size.

Re: Universal Laws

Posted: Sat Aug 07, 2010 7:25 pm
by VoiceofReason
Murphy's Law applies to Newton’s law. What goes up will come down where you can’t find it. :roll: