[Sosfbay-discuss] murphy's law

[Jim Doyle]

This from the common dreams article
http://www.commondreams.org/views07/0126-26.htm

In 2003 the Ig Nobel Prize for Engineering 
<http://www.improbable.com/ig/> was presented, somewhat belatedly, to 
the late Edward A. Murphy, Jr., and two others for their 1949 
formulation of a fundamental law of engineering: "If there are two or 
more ways to do something, and one of those ways can result in a 
catastrophe, someone will do it." This is known as "Murphy’s Law" and it 
is parsed popularly as "If anything can go wrong, it will."

Perhaps George W. Bush should be considered for an Ig Nobel prize this 
year, for exhaustively demonstrating the workings of Murphy’s Law in 
many different disciplines.

I....... and much further down

G) Murphy’s Law has not been repealed or disproved;