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301669	2004-12-10 07:21:00	Sod's Law and its Corollaries or The Twelve Laws of Inaccurate Perception SOD'S LAW, ALSO KNOWN AS MURPHY'S LAW . If anything can go wrong, it will . O'TOOLE'S COMMENTARY ON MURPHY'S LAW . Murphy was an optimist . THE FIRST COROLLARY TO SOD'S LAW . Anything that is to go wrong will do so at the worst possible moment . THE UNSPEAKABLE LAW . As soon as you mention something, if it's good, it goes away; if it's bad, it happens . NON-RECIPROCAL LAWS OF EXPECTATIONS . Negative expectations yield negative results . Positive expectations yield negative results . HOWE'S LAW . Every man has a scheme which will not work . ZYMURGY'S FIRST LAW OF EVOLVING SYSTEM DYNAMICS . Once you open a can of worms, the only way to re-can them is to use a larger can . SKINNER'S CONSTANT . The quantity which must be multiplied by, divided by, added to or subtracted from the answer you get to give the answer you should have got . LAW OF SELECTIVE GRAVITY . An object will fall so as to do the most damage . JENNING'S COROLLARY . The chance of the bread falling with the buttered side down is directly proportional to the cost of the carpet . BARTH'S DISTINCTION . There are two types of people: those who divide people into two types and those who do not . NINETY-NINETY RULE OF PROJECT SCHEDULES . The first 90% of the job takes 90% of the time, the last 10% takes the other 90% . FARBER'S RULE . Necessity is the mother of strange bedfellows . ––	Thomas (1820)
301670	2004-12-10 09:06:00	Thanks for sharing this with us Thomas. I, for one, enjoyed it. What do you think of the WFTWE comments about Ahmed Zaoui?	theotherone (1421)
301671	2004-12-10 09:08:00	> What do you think of the WFTWE comments about Ahmed > Zaoui? Two threads on one topic might lead to confusion ....	TonyF (246)
301672	2004-12-10 09:22:00	I'm going to have those engraved Tom. Great fun and no little wisdom. Ta.	Winston001 (3612)
301673	2004-12-10 09:28:00	>>What do you think of the WFTWE comments about Ahmed Zaoui? I think Winston could speak more eloquently on this subject. Over to you Winston,I hope you know what WFTWE stands for. Glad you all enjoyed as much as I did.	Thomas (1820)
301674	2004-12-10 09:30:00	>>What do you think of the WFTWE comments about Ahmed Zaoui? I think Winston could speak more eloquently on this subject. Over to you Winston,I hope you know what WFTWE stands for. Glad you all enjoyed as much as I did.	Thomas (1820)
301675	2004-12-10 09:54:00	Funny? There seems to be an echo in your PC? :D	Winston001 (3612)
301676	2004-12-10 10:06:00	Its the new house,still a bit hollow,will be alright when all furniture is in;) I am not a poetry person but I remember this from my scool days at Hayfield reformatory,a kind of northern mirror of Eaton . Simple and quite sad,what do all think? "O MARY, go and call the cattle home, And call the cattle home, And call the cattle home, Across the sands of Dee!" The western wind was wild and dank with foam, And all alone went she . The western tide crept up along the sand, And o'er and o'er the sand, And round and round the sand, As far as eye could see . The rolling mist came down and hid the land-- And never home came she . "Oh! is it weed, or fish, or floating hair-- A tress of golden hair, A drownèd maiden's hair Above the nets at sea? Was never salmon yet that shone so fair Among the stakes on Dee . " They rowed her in across the rolling foam, The cruel crawling foam, The cruel hungry foam, To her grave beside the sea; But still the boatmen hear her call the cattle home Across the sands of Dee . Charles Kingsley	Thomas (1820)
301677	2004-12-10 10:42:00	Excellent. Very uplifting. :_| Chuck also wrote "The Water Babies" which I had to digest as an 11yr old. Lyrical but not a patch on Biggles. :D And you were in a Reformatory Tom? Not the American usage of the term I trust. Mind you, that would explain a lot................... ;)	Winston001 (3612)
301678	2004-12-10 13:48:00	That lot was out in the nineteen eighties!	Greg S (201)
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