Humor: Meet Murphy's Cousins

Most of us are familiar with Murphy’s law that if something can go wrong, it will. Perhaps in your case, you feel that Murphy is knocking at your door now, if he hasn’t already moved in to your spare bedroom to stay a while. Well, if you thought Murphy was bad, you don’t want to meet his cousins**(if you've recently made the acquaintance of Murphy or one of his cousins, we'd love you to tell us about it by commenting on this post) . . .

Murphy’s Cousin #1: Nothing is as easy as it looks.

Murphy’s Cousin #2: Everything takes longer than you think.

Murphy’s Cousin #3: In any field of scientific endeavor, anything that can go wrong will go wrong.

Murphy’s Cousin #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.

Murphy’s Cousin #5: If anything just cannot go wrong, it will anyway.

Murphy’s Cousin #6: If you perceive that there are four possible ways to which a procedure can go wrong and circumvent these, then a fifth way, unprepared for, will promptly develop.

Murphy’s Cousin #7: Left to themselves, things tend to go from bad to worse.

Murphy’s Cousin #8: If everything seems to be going well, you have obviously overlooked something.

Murphy’s Cousin #9: Nature always sides with the hidden flaws.

Murphy’s Cousin #10: It is impossible to make anything foolproof, because fools are so ingenious.

*adapted from John Peers’ humorous book “1001 Logical Laws . . .”