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Veeger
07-04-2006, 10:22 AM
Law of Mechanical Repair: After your hands become coated with grease your nose will begin to itch or you'll have to tinkle.

Law of the Workshop: Any tool, when dropped, will roll to the least accessible corner.

Law of Probability: The probability of being watched is directly proportional to the stupidity of your act.

Law of the Telephone: When you dial a wrong number, you never get a busy signal.

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.

Variation Law: If you change lines (or traffic lanes), the one you were in will start to move faster than the one you are in now. (works every time)

Bath Theorem: When the body is fully immersed in water, the telephone rings.

Law of Close Encounters: The probability of meeting someone you know increases when you are with someone you don't want to be seen with.

Law of the Result: When you try to prove to someone that a machine won't work, it will.

Law of Biomechanics: The severity of the itch is inversely proportional to the reach.

Theatre Rule: At any event, the people whose seats are furthest from the aisle arrive last.

Law of Coffee: 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.

Murphy's Law of Lockers: If there are only two people in a locker room, they will have adjacent lockers.

Law of Dirty Rugs/Carpets: The chances of an open-faced jelly sandwich landing face down on a floor covering are directly correlated to the newness and cost of the carpet/rug.

Law of Location: No matter where you go, there you are.

Law of Logical Argument: Anything is possible if you don't know what you are talking about.

Brown's Law: If the shoe fits, it's really ugly.

Oliver's Law: A closed mouth gathers no feet.

Wilson's Law: As soon as you find a product that you really like, they will stop making it.

Ktan
07-04-2006, 10:29 AM
Nice. Did you make those yourself?
(btw, I'm guessing this is what's also known as 'Sod's law.' Not a problem, I'm just more familiar with that term)

I do find the laws of the workshop apply alot. Mainly becuase sometimes I'm so lazy I actually try to use 'the force' to get things instead of just standing up and getting them if they are an inch out of reach. I have no idea why I try, maybe it's because I'm usually tired when I do something like that.

Big fat Meh.

Veeger
07-04-2006, 10:47 AM
No, I didn't. A friend of mine from New Zealand on her Xanga. I found it funny, and thought I would share.

U-238
07-04-2006, 11:03 AM
Lol veeger. That was great. Most of those I find true too.

Tharisfal
07-04-2006, 11:19 AM
Law of the Result: When you try to prove to someone that a machine won't work, it will.

Damn this happens soo often.

DeathGhost
07-04-2006, 12:14 PM
That Law of Result also can work in the reverse, like if i was trying to do some amazing trick. I finally do it, mabye afew times, then everyone starts watching and you can't do it, the second everyone turns away, you do it again.

hammocksleeper
07-04-2006, 12:17 PM
Murphy's Law of Lockers: If there are only two people in a locker room, they will have adjacent lockers.

My gym actually has an engineered system whereby the key you get is guaranteed to be to a locker that is spaced out from other people, unless the locker room is full of course. Apparently people care about this kind of thing, I didn't realize.

Ubergopher
07-04-2006, 1:53 PM
Actually, I think "Anything that can go wrong will go wrong" covers all of that nicely.

TheBB
07-04-2006, 1:53 PM
My gym actually has an engineered system whereby the key you get is guaranteed to be to a locker that is spaced out from other people, unless the locker room is full of course. Apparently people care about this kind of thing, I didn't realize.

Lol, that's amazing.

It IS really annoying to be in a big locker room with absolutely noone else than you and one other guy (which you don't know) and you have to stay in the same corner because both your lockers are there.

Modred
07-04-2006, 3:41 PM
It IS really annoying to be in a big locker room with absolutely noone else than you and one other guy (which you don't know) and you have to stay in the same corner because both your lockers are there.
I never really had that problem. I guess I always knew the guys in the lockers nearby.

Veeger
07-04-2006, 3:47 PM
EDIT: Eh, bad joke: I retract it.

Black.Ice
07-04-2006, 4:09 PM
Great list of laws; I can relate to almost all of 'em.

Neo
07-04-2006, 5:49 PM
Heh, pretty good. I liked the one about the machine. Thats happened so often to me...

Oh, and I removed the color. It was kind of hard to read :/

-Neo

B.A.Baracus
07-04-2006, 5:53 PM
Oliver's Law: A closed mouth gathers no feet.


I might want to take that one into consideration...:shiftyr:

Dragonboyjgh
07-04-2006, 6:49 PM
Wilson's Law: As soon as you find a product that you really like, they will stop making it. invader zim is proof of that.

The_Maker
07-05-2006, 3:40 AM
So true Dragon...

I can also very easily relate to The Law of Result :/

Veeger
07-05-2006, 7:29 AM
Oh, and I removed the color. It was kind of hard to read :/


Thank you, Neo. I thought about that after I had posted it (my friend from RSJ, who originally posted this on her xanga, has this thing about blue letters -- I don't get it, it must be a New Zealand thing), but I didn't bother changing it.

Seal
07-05-2006, 7:37 AM
when normal people get easy, modifiable homepages, they generally make it flashy and heavy and hard to use. its normal :b

kongurous
07-05-2006, 9:39 AM
I had no problem reading it, but whatever.

TinyDancer
07-05-2006, 12:41 PM
One of my friends has a poster of most of these, plus a few others, on her wall. I love them. :)

MatGeo
07-05-2006, 1:54 PM
I've always liked these kind of laws... They are the sad truth... :(

GrassDragon
07-05-2006, 2:14 PM
It seems that the only really good products are always just a special version of some lame product that will only be around for a few months, and then you're left with an addiction and a crappy product that you would never use in the first place.

Protoss_Honor
07-05-2006, 3:49 PM
All of those are 100% true, and I have had all of them apply to me. Well, at least most of them if not all of them.

IrishDutchman
07-05-2006, 6:04 PM
I just found out another similar one while playing soccer.

If you have missed the goal by shooting over the crossbar, and you have to run a mile to get the ball back, and you want to shoot the ball back over the goal, it never works.

Sounds weird, but if it happens three times in a row it get's really annoying :P

sololop
07-05-2006, 7:46 PM
Those are so true. And while you laugh now, you curse when they happen.