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Murphy's Law
bambambam
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Variations On Murphy's Law
1. The Law of Common Sense: Never accept a drink from a urologist.
2. The Law of Reality: Never get into fights with ugly people, they have
nothing to lose.
3. The Law of Self Sacrifice: When you starve with a tiger, the tiger
starves last.
4. The Law of Volunteering: If you dance with a grizzly bear, you had
better let him lead.
5. The Law of Avoiding Oversell: When putting cheese in a mousetrap,
always leave room for the mouse.
6. The Law of Motivation: Creativity is great, but plagiarism is faster.
7. Boob's Law: You always find something in the last place you look.
8. Wailer's Law: Nothing is impossible for the man who doesn't have to do
it himself.
9. Law of Probable Dispersal: Whatever hits the fan will not be evenly
distributed.
10. Law of Volunteer Labor: People are always available for work in the
past tense.
11. Conway's Law: In any organization there is one person who knows what
is going on. That person must be fired.
12. Iron Law of Distribution: Them that has, gets.
13. Law of Cybernetic Entomology: There is always one more bug.
14. Law of Drunkenness: You can't fall off the floor.
15. Heeler's Law: The first myth of management is that it exists.
16. Osborne's Law: Variables won't; constants aren't.
17. Main's Law: For every action there is an equal and opposite
government program.
18. Weinberg's Second Law: If builders built buildings the way
programmers wrote programs, then the first woodpecker that came along
would have destroyed civilization.
I often repeat myself, to make sure i heard correctly.
1. The Law of Common Sense: Never accept a drink from a urologist.
2. The Law of Reality: Never get into fights with ugly people, they have
nothing to lose.
3. The Law of Self Sacrifice: When you starve with a tiger, the tiger
starves last.
4. The Law of Volunteering: If you dance with a grizzly bear, you had
better let him lead.
5. The Law of Avoiding Oversell: When putting cheese in a mousetrap,
always leave room for the mouse.
6. The Law of Motivation: Creativity is great, but plagiarism is faster.
7. Boob's Law: You always find something in the last place you look.
8. Wailer's Law: Nothing is impossible for the man who doesn't have to do
it himself.
9. Law of Probable Dispersal: Whatever hits the fan will not be evenly
distributed.
10. Law of Volunteer Labor: People are always available for work in the
past tense.
11. Conway's Law: In any organization there is one person who knows what
is going on. That person must be fired.
12. Iron Law of Distribution: Them that has, gets.
13. Law of Cybernetic Entomology: There is always one more bug.
14. Law of Drunkenness: You can't fall off the floor.
15. Heeler's Law: The first myth of management is that it exists.
16. Osborne's Law: Variables won't; constants aren't.
17. Main's Law: For every action there is an equal and opposite
government program.
18. Weinberg's Second Law: If builders built buildings the way
programmers wrote programs, then the first woodpecker that came along
would have destroyed civilization.
I often repeat myself, to make sure i heard correctly.
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All the joints were leaking.[:(!]
Well, all the metal rings had calcium & rust so I took everything all apart and soaked in CLR. I put them all back together today, leaking...[:(!]
I go to Ace today & get an entire replacement for all the pipes & get all PVC.
I'm working on tightening the drop tube nut & I spin the drain tube in the porcelain sink.
Now, I have to take the drain out of the sink, clean all the old plumbers putty off the drain tube, put new putty on and reinstall.
Put everything back together....F'in wall pipe is leaking were it's going into the galvanized metal pipe on the wall.
A trip back to Ace and I get a rubber washer/ring to seal the plastic pipe to the metal pipe.
10min clean-out turned into a 2 day production. Murphy's law at its best.[:D]
And fiery auto crashes
Some will die in hot pursuit
While sifting through my ashes
Some will fall in love with life
And drink it from a fountain
That is pouring like an avalanche
Coming down the mountain
If you can't feel the music; it's only pink noise!
I had a clogged drain on the sink in my wife's bathroom last night. I took the trap off(all chromed lined metal, rusty). Cleared what ever my son washed done it, and put back together.
All the joints were leaking.[:(!]
Well, all the metal rings had calcium & rust so I took everything all apart and soaked in CLR. I put them all back together today, leaking...[:(!]
I go to Ace today & get an entire replacement for all the pipes & get all PVC.
I'm working on tightening the drop tube nut & I spin the drain tube in the porcelain sink.
Now, I have to take the drain out of the sink, clean all the old plumbers putty off the drain tube, put new putty on and reinstall.
Put everything back together....F'in wall pipe is leaking were it's going into the galvanized metal pipe on the wall.
A trip back to Ace and I get a rubber washer/ring to seal the plastic pipe to the metal pipe.
10min clean-out turned into a 2 day production. Murphy's law at its best.[:D]
Plumber told me once you start taking stuff apart you end up fixing far more then the original problem.
15 , 20 min. job that took two days , countless trips to the parts store ,& way more money then I planned to spend [:o)]
Murphy's law at it's finest !!!
Murphy was an optimist!
That's known as Riley's Law.[:D]
Murphy was an optimist!
According to Gumperson!
Don't ask me how I know about this. . .
Wife works for a plumbing contractor. [:D]
Life is good. [^]
Get it all together and THAT'S when I noticed that the faucet was leaking too.
New faucet installed and finally all was well.
A $1 pipe ended up costing me over $100. [:(]
Sounds about like how every one of my simple repair projects goes.
Mine too[xx(]
What I hate more than anything is My Wife standing behind Me freaking out because She thinks I am going to burn the House down because the Drywall gets scorched in some of the tight places.
This is why I try not to do any Work around the House when She is Home.