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[ST] Off subject but a laugh



Sorry for posting off subject but these are pretty good. Most are
applicable to working on our bikes or Miata's.

Okay, you've heard of Murphy's famous Law: Everything that can go wrong
will go wrong. Well, there are many other related Lawsl. Here are some:


After your hands become coated with grease, your nose will begin to itch.
- --Lorenz's Law of Mechanical Repair


Identical parts aren't.
- --Beach's Law


Any tool, when dropped, will roll into the least accessible corner.
- --Anthony's Law of the Workshop


Nothing is as inevitable as a mistake whose time has come.
- --Tussman's Law


If it jams, force it. If it breaks, it needed replacing anyway.
- --Lowery's Law


The solution to a problem changes the problem.
- --Peer's Law


There is no mechanical problem so difficult that it cannot be solved by
brute strength and ignorance.
- --William's Law


Handy Guide to Modern Science:
        1. If it's green or it wiggles, it's Biology.
        2. If it stinks, it's Chemistry.
        3. If it doesn't work, it's Physics.


Machines should work. People should think.
- --IBM's Pollyanna Principle:


The most ineffective workers will be systematically moved to the place
where they can do the least damage - management.
- --The Dilbert Principle


The first rule of intelligent tinkering is to save all the parts.
- --Ehrlich's Law


It is a mistake to allow any mechanical object to realize that you are in a
hurry.
- --Ralph's Observation


If you tell the boss you were late for work because you had a flat tire,
the next morning you will have a flat tire.
- --Cannon's Comment


Thinly sliced cabbage.
- --Cole's Law



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