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Offline Magpie

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Universal Laws
« on: February 23, 2010, 08:03:45 AM »
UNIVERSAL LAWS as we see them in the bike world

1. Law of Mechanical Repair - After your hands become coated with grease, your nose will begin to itch and you'll have to pee.

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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Offline myhondas

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Re: Universal Laws
« Reply #1 on: February 23, 2010, 10:22:32 AM »
Here's the others .....full list....

Murphy's First Law:  Nothing is as easy as it looks.
Murphy's Second Law:  Everything takes longer than you think.
Murphy's Third Law:  In any field of scientific endeavor, anything that can go wrong will go wrong.
Murphy's Fourth Law:  If there is a possibility of several things going wrong, the one that will cause the most damage will be the one to go wrong.
Murphy's Fifth Law:  If anything just cannot go wrong, it will anyway.
Murphy's Sixth Law:  If you perceive that there are four possible ways in which a procedure can go wrong and circumvent these, then a fifth way, unprepared for, will promptly develop.
Murphy's Seventh Law:  Left to themselves, things tend to go from bad to worse.
Murphy's Eighth Law:  If everything seems to be going well, you have obviously overlooked something.
Murphy's Ninth Law:  Nature always sides with the hidden flaw.
Murphy's Tenth Law:  Mother Nature is a #$%*.
Murphy's Eleventh Law:  It is impossible to make anything foolproof, because fools are so ingenious.
Humiston's Law:  When you are up to your ass in alligators, it's hard to remember that your original intention
was to drain the swamp.
Schmidt's Observation:  All things being equal, a fat person uses more soap than a thin person.
Nick the Greek's Law of Life:  All things considered, life is 9 to 5 against.
Sturgeon's Law:  Ninety percent of everything is crud.
Nowlan's Theory:  He who hesitates is not only lost, but several miles from the next freeway exit.
Van Roy's Law:  Honesty is the best policy-there's less competition.
Van Roy's Truism:  Life is a whole series of circumstances beyond your control.
Johnny Carson's Observation on Geriatrics:  Sex in the sixties is great, but it improves if you pull over to the side of the road.
The Law of Comparative Pleasure:  Sex: even when it's bad, it's good.
Agnes'Law:  Almost everything in life is easier to get into than out of.
Westlake's Sage Remark:  Love is never having to say how much.
Billings' Notes:  (l) Sex has no calories.  (2) Infants don't have as much fun in infancy as adults do in adultery.
(3) A dirty old man is just a sexually active senior citizen.
Larkin's Law:  Sex is only dirty-if it's done right.
Clarke's Conclusion:  Never let your sense of morals interfere with doing the right thing.
Kesell's Law:  If a man writes a better book, preaches a better sermon, or beds a better whore than his neighbor,
though he builds his domicile deep in the woods, the world will beat a path to his door to find out who the better whore was.
Jacquin's Postulate on Democratic Governments:  No man's life, liberty, or property are safe while the legislature is in session.
Dr. Nordstrom's First Rule of Debate:  It is difficult to win an argument when your opponent is unencumbered
with a knowledge of the facts.
Katz's Law:  Men and nations will act rationally when all other possibilities have been exhausted.
Glomm's Law:  The strong take from the weak, the rich take from the poor, and the government takes from everyone.
Nowlan's Truism:  An "acceptable level of unemployment" means that the government economist to whom it is acceptable still has a job.
Long's Axiom:  An elephant is a mouse built to government specifications.
Lani's Principles of Economics:  (1) Taxes are not levied for the benefit of the taxed.  (2) One hundred dollars placed at 7 per cent interest compounded quarterly for two hundred years will increase to more than $100 million, by which time it will be worth nothing.  (3) In God we trust; all others pay cash.
Peter's Principle:  In every hierarchy, whether it be government or business, each employee tends to rise to his
level of incompetence; every post tends to be filled by an employee incompetent to execute its duties.
Peter's Corollaries:  (1) Incompetence knows no barriers of time or place.  (2) Work is accomplished by those employees who have not yet reached their level of incompetence.  (3) If at first you don't succeed, try something else.
Fletcher's Flagrant Rumination:  Efficiency is a highly developed form of laziness.
Stovall's Law of Negative Inaction:  The only thing wrong with doing nothing is that you never know when you're finished.
Sousa's Principle of Lecture:  If you can't baffle them with brilliance, befuddle them with BS.
Saul Lavisky's Observation:  Education is what you get from reading the small print. Experience is what you get from not reading it.
Long's Note:  Never underestimate the power of human stupidity.
Hodghead's Cynicism:  A husband (or wife) is a person who sticks with you through troubles you wouldn't have had if you hadn't married him (or her) in the first place.
Hufstader's Insight:  Time is nature's way of keeping everything from happening at once.
The Weather-Report Rule:  Bad weather reports are more often right than good ones.
Firestone's Law of Forecasting:  Chicken Little only has to be right once.
Saunder's Slant:  There is always free cheese in a mousetrap.
John Newhern's Law:  People can be divided into three groups: those who make things happen, those who watch things happen, and those who wonder what happened.
Goda's Truism:  By the time you get to the point where you can make ends meet, somebody moves the ends.
Zall's Laws:  (l) Any time you get a mouthful of hot soup, the next thing you do will be wrong.
(2) How long a minute is, depends on which side of the bathroom door you're on.'
Ettore's Observation:  The line you are not in, moves faster.
Cann's Axiom:  When all else fails, read the instructions.
Macaluso's Doctrine: You've never been as sick as just before you stop breathing.
Manly's Maxim:  Logic is a systematic method of coming to the wrong conclusion with confidence.
The Carpenter's Quandary:  Oops, I cut it off again and it's still too short.
Harvard's Law:  Under the most rigorously controlled conditions of pressure, temperature, volume, humidity, and other variables, the organism will do as it damn well pleases.
The Law of Selective Gravity, or the Buttered-Side-Down Law:  An object will fall so as to do the most damage.
Stale's Law:  No matter how careful one is in resealing the inner liner in a cereal box, it will tear where it is glued to the box.
William's Law:  There is no mechanical problem so difficult that it cannot be solved by brute strength and ignorance.
Lowery's Law:  If it jams, force it. If it breaks, it needed replacing anyway.
Anthony's Law of the Workshop:  Any tool, when dropped, will roll into the least accessible corner.
The Corollary to Anthony's Law of the Workshop:  On its way to the corner, any dropped tool will always first strike your toes.
Flucard's Corollary:  Anything dropped in the bathroom falls in the toilet.

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Re: Universal Laws
« Reply #2 on: February 24, 2010, 06:56:51 AM »
There is nothing truer than the Locker Law. No matter what size the locker room is!
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Re: Universal Laws
« Reply #3 on: February 24, 2010, 08:46:58 AM »
Kesell's Law:  If a man writes a better book, preaches a better sermon, or beds a better whore than his neighbor, though he builds his domicile deep in the woods, the world will beat a path to his door to find out who the better whore was.

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