"Whenever things sound easy, it turns out there's one part you didn't hear."
~Donald E. Westlake
First off, this is NOT a cult or anything. Just a little belief my friends and I joked about around finals *shudder* time came around in high school. This started early second semester of my freshman year when I got a little handout from my English teacher with Murphy's Laws listed on it. I have no idea where he got it, if any of you know I'll give credit where it's due, just tell me. We started a little belief system for those who take these laws as the laws of reality and started calling the belief "Murphy-ism" and the people who believed it (namely me & my buds at the lunch table) "Murphy-ists." (This is not to be confused with Murphology, the study of Murphy's Law, or Murphologists, experts in the field. Personally, I do not claim to be a Murphologist, as there are many corollaries to Murphy's Law which remain a mystery to me.) I found the handout as I was cleaning out my notebook at the end of freshman year and have listed those laws here.
Murphy's Law (a.k.a. The Law of Perversity, Finagle’s Law, Sod's Law, etc.): if anything can go wrong, it will -- and, of course, it will happen in the most annoying manner possible.
Murphy's Other Laws:
1. Nothing is as easy as it looks.
2. Everything takes longer than you think.
3. In any field of scientific endeavor, anything that can go wrong will go wrong.
4. If there is a possibility of several things going wrong, the one that will cause the most damage will be the one to go wrong.
5. If anything just CANNOT go wrong, it will anyway.
6. If you perceive that there are four ways in which a procedure can go wrong and circumvent these, then a fifth way - unprepared for - will promptly develop.
7. Left to themselves, things tend to go from bad to worse.
8. If everything seems to be going well, you have obviously overlooked something.
9. Nature always sides with the hidden flaw.
10. Mother Nature is a...(well we all know what Mother Nature is, you can fill in this little blank with the word you find most appropriate - Ryan's note).
And the most important law, Murphy's Law of Thermodynamics:
Things get worse under pressure.
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