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What is Murphy's Law?

the law in nature that makes the B's prone to seeing Ken everywhere we go. Ken is everywhere and we always run into him at horrible times. B usually runs away screaming "MURPHYS LAW!!"

-aka- Ken's Law

after a long hard workout, who do we see?? but ken walking to his sweet car

-Murphy's Law

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Murphy's Law - video


Murphy's Law - what is it?

When you are just fated to get humiliated,when it is not your fault

Your name gets called out in the School's Auditorium.
Everyone starts laughing.
Turns out your name is Dick.That's Murphy's Law for you.

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What does "Murphy's Law" mean?

How spoiled little fucks interpret the motives of the world around them. always thinking that things HAVE to go right for them all the time(to the point where they can't recognize a blessing if it fucked them in the ass) and when it doesnt, the world all of a sudden turns into a hatefilled monster with a sole purpose to turn said person's life into a hell because he cant stop thinking about how his life sucks because one thing didn't go the way it was supposed to in his little bubble/world. Shit happens, the longer you cry about it, the more it affects you, grow up and take control of your emotions dipshit.

person 1: Hey, whats up man!
person 2: Have you heard of Murphy's law?
person 1: nah, what is it? chemistry?
person 2: my girlfriend just told me it isnt working so i went out for a drive, i was lighting my cigarette when a truck pulls out of nowhere and i smash right into it
person 1: damn that sucks, oh well shit happens, wanna get some chinese, im taking this hot chick, and shes bringing a friend.
person 2: no i need some time to get my self together
person 1: alright bro take it easy.

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Murphy's Law - what does it mean?

The life that of Jenifer Ives. What ever possibly could go wrong, will go wrong. All life long. Period.

Having a day of complete disaster? Murphy's Law could apply here, I mean you're having a Jenifer? Happens to others from time to time.

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Murphy's Law - meaning

The secret of the universe: The Universe is intrinsically dystopic.

During a workshop on "Murphy's Law", the shit hit the fan.

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Murphy's Law - definition

"Anything that can go wrong, will go wrong".

From an inventor's viewpoint, this is ultimately an argument for keeping things simple and focused on a single task. The simpler an invention is, the less scenarios need to be considered and tested.

Another way to understand it is as though you are living in the future looking back at a problem that occurred:

"If something went wrong with your invention, it's because you didn't do anything to prevent that scenario from happening".

Examples of things you could have prevented but didn't, and thus went wrong:
- The electrical cables burned the house down because the load was too hot. This could have been prevented by adding a fuse, but you didn't.
- The water heater exploded because it didn't have a pressure release valve, which it could have had, but didn't.
- The door fell off the plane when it went upside down because the hinge pin didn't have a lock, which it could have had, but didn't.
- The Earth shifted and caused cracks in the clay pipes under the house, which could have been prevented if flexible piping was used, but it wasn't.

Again, ultimately this is a reminder to keep your invention as simple as possible. It's often tempting to keep throwing new features into it, to make it appeal to a larger audience or solve more problems, but every new feature creates new, untested possible outcomes which can be hard to predict. Hard to predict that is, until they've happened, which they will.

Inventor 1: I created a lightswitch! It has 2 possible states: on or off. I'm aware all of the scenarios that could exist!

Critic: Great, except I see you used iron on the connector pins. Did you account for the corrosive reaction if copper wire is used against the iron? Murphy's Law dictates that it will happen at some point, because it could.

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Murphy's Law - slang

What can go wrong, will go wrong.

If you drop buttered toast, it will always land butter side down... Murphy's Law

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Murphy's Law

when something ironically goes wrong.

examples of Murphy's Law:
1: "the one day you forget to brush your teeth, it's picture day at school!!"

2: "the one time that you make me a pom-pom bow to put in my shoe, i have to dance! darn that murphy, he never takes a day off..."

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Murphy's Law

A law that states that everything that can go wrong, will. For Example: A jellied piece of

bread will always fall jelly side down. Example 2: Just when you thought it was safe to wear a white skirt to school, because your period isnt for another week---you end up with a japanese flag on your ass.

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Murphy's Law

prov. If there are two or more ways to do something, and one of those ways can result in a catastrophe, then someone will do it.

Edward A. Murphy, Jr. was one of the engineers on the rocket-sled experiments that were done by the U.S. Air Force in 1949 to test human acceleration tolerances (USAF project MX981). One experiment involved a set of 16 accelerometers mounted to different parts of the subject's body. There were two ways each sensor could be glued to its mount, and somebody methodically installed all 16 the wrong way around. Murphy then made the original form of his pronouncement, which the test subject (Major John Paul Stapp) quoted at a news conference a few days later.

Within months `Murphy's Law' had spread to various technical cultures connected to aerospace engineering. Before too many years had gone by variants had passed into the popular imagination, changing as they went. Most of these are variants on "Anything that can go wrong, will"; this is correctly referred to as Finagle's Law. The memetic drift apparent in these mutants clearly demonstrates Murphy's Law acting on itself!

This is a principle of defensive design, and usually given in mutant forms less descriptive of the challenges of design.

You don't make a two-pin plug symmetrical and then label it `THIS WAY UP'; if it matters which way it is plugged in, then you make the design asymmetrical.

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