原创 Descendants of Murphy's Laws

David often forwards these jokes to me. I particularly like the funny ones (LOL). The last one was titled Murphy's Laws, Part 1, which sparked my blog Expanding Murphy's Law.

 

Well, I just received an email from David with the subject line: Murphy's Laws, Part 2 (or "Part Deux" for the French speakers amongst our number). The contents of this email were as follows:

Murphy's Laws: Part 2

1. You can never tell which way the train went by looking at the track.
2. Logic is a systematic method of coming to the wrong conclusion with confidence.
3. All great discoveries are made by mistake.
4. Nothing ever gets built on schedule or within budget.
5. A meeting is an event at which minutes are kept and hours are lost.
6. A failure will not appear in a unit until after it has passed final inspection.
7. Some people manage by the book, even though they don't know who wrote the book or even which book.
8. The primary function of the design engineer is to make things difficult for the fabricator and impossible for the serviceman.
9. 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.
10. Matter will be damaged in direct proportion to its value.

Several of these brought a wry smile to my face, but the one that really struck a chord was #7. How about you? Have you had any real-life experiences that directly map onto one of these "laws"? And can you suggest any additional items we should add to the list?