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[ST] Off subject but a laugh
- Subject: [ST] Off subject but a laugh
- From: "Jack Hays" <rude@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 14 May 2004 07:53:30 -0500
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
Que Lastima, Jack "Rude Dog" Hays
972-952-5065
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