If nothing can go wrong, something will
If you are given an open-book exam, you will forget your book.
Pocket calculator batteries that have lasted all semester will fail during
the math final.
Corollary: If you bring extra batteries, they will be defective.
Corollary: If you bring extra batteries, they will be defective.
No matter how much you study for a test you will be asked the question that
you haven’t studied.
"If there are two or more ways to do something, and one of those ways can result in a catastrophe, then someone will do it."
- If something bad can happen,
- If you change queues,
- If you wash your car,
- If you look for something you have lost,
- If you wear something white,
- If someone near you is smoking,
- If you find something in a shop that you really like,
- If you take something that doesn’t work back to a shop,
- If you stop waiting for a bus and start walking,
- If you get to the station and a train is just leaving,
a) the bus will come.b) it will.c) it’ll rain.d) you’ll spill wine or coffee on it.e) the smoke will always go directly towards you.f) it’ll start working.
g) it’ll be your train. h)the other one will move faster.
i) you’ll find it in the last place you look.
j) they won’t have it in your size.
Complete the following sentences following Murphy's philosophy:
If you are single and you meet somebody you really like,...If you park a long way from where you’re going,...If you are in a hurry,...If you get to school late,...If you leave your mobile phone at home,...
