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The American Edsel Murphy found out and formulated first

The Law Of The Continual Annoyance:
"If anything can go wrong, it will!"


Initiation for his philosophical think-work was the unpleasant message of his bride that she was expecting a successor to the throne of the family.

To explain this universal law please find below some examples of use:

Murphy's School-Laws

§ 1
If you learned something for days and it's laid down surely in mind it is suddenly vanished into thin air when the teacher wants to hear it.

§ 2
If at a dictation you correct an obviously wrong word, always the first spelling was the right.

§ 3
The cartridge of a fountain pen will always be empty at this moment when you are most behind with the longest sentence.

§ 4
If you look for something in a book, dictionary or file, you will always find it on the last page if you start to search from the beginning and on the first page if you start crafty from the back.

§ 5
Works which are so simple that you cannot make them wrong and you checked them anyway, are always wrong yet.

§ 6
In any calculation always this number is the origin of errors which was evidently correct.

§ 7
In results decimal points are located always at the wrong position, units of measurement are always wrong, therefore it's better to omit both.

§ 8
The more important a part of a calculation is the more probably you forget it.

§ 9
Every error which can creep into a calculation will do this definitely, in fact this way that you must start again from the beginning.

§ 10
If you cut a part to the right size it's always to short. (Be glad if you have a pair of scissors with reverse gear!)

§ 11
If an item falls down on the floor it's mostly the fragilest you have. If it doen't break exceptionally, it will roll at least to the hindmost inaccessiblest corner of the room. (This law is also known as selective gravitation )

§ 12
If you leave at home an item which you dragged along in vain for days and you'll not need it anyhow will be needed always exact on this day.

§ 13
If you don't find your pen although you searched carefully on your desk and in the whole room, surely you will have it in your hand. If your spectacles are undiscoverable you have it in your face.

§ 14
If ink drops out of your fountain pen or ketchup out of your sandwich it hits always the most important document which must not be polluted on no account.

§ 15
Just when you kiss your princess (your prince) in your dream, the teacher vociferates so loudly that you awake.

§ 16
Snowballs in the schoolyard always hit an eye of a unconcerned schoolfellow although you aimed accurately at the nose of a teacher.


Murphy's Electronics-Laws

§ 1
A simple cock-sure circuit never works.

§ 2
An apparatus which was tested carefully and worked well for weeks, will suddenly refuse at this moment when you present it to your chief (also known as effect of presentation ).

§ 3
Circuits for amplification always will oscillate, circuits for oscillation never will.

§ 4
If you cut a wire to the exact length it will always be to short.

§ 5
If you protect a transistor through a quick fuse, the transistor will protect the fuse because he is quicker.

§ 6
If a tool falls in an apparatus it will hit without fail this place where it will be able to cause the most damage (alos known as selective gravitation ).

§ 7
If in an apparatus with occasional drop-outs you replaced an obviously broken component and you tested the apparatus for weeks, the drop-outs will always appear at this moment when the apparatus is back in use by the customer.

§ 8
After repairing an apparatus when it is assembled complete you can always find some left parts on the workbench.

§ 9
The probability of forgetting a part in a circuit diagram is proportional increasing by its importance.

§ 10
The more harmless a technical modification looks like the bader are its really consequences.

§ 11
If an item falls down it's mostly the fragilest. If not it will roll at least to the hindmost inaccessiblest corner of the room. (This law is also known as selective gravitation )

§ 12
Interchangeable parts are not interchangeable in reality.

§ 14
If you need for a work n parts, there are always n - 1 in stocks.

§ 15
The more urgent a part is needed the more difficult is procurement.

§ 16
Parts which must not be built in wrong and which cannot be built in wrong are often built in wrong.

§ 17
Every error which can creep into a calculation will do this definitely, in fact this way that you must start again from the beginning.

§ 18
In any calculation always this number is the origin of errors which was evidently correct.

§ 19
If you put some insignificant papers into the paper shredder it's always the most important document of which there exists no copy.

§ 20
If you look for something in a book, dictionary or file, you will always find it on the last page if you start to search from the beginning and on the first page if you start crafty from the back.

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