Sods Law, who was he?

Question

We all know the meaning but who was Sod?

Answer 1

Murphy's law is a popular adage in Western culture that most likely originated at Edwards Air Force Base in 1948. The Law broadly states that things will go wrong in any given situation, if you give them a chance. "If there's more than one way to do a job, and one of those ways will result in disaster, then somebody will do it that way." It is most often cited as "Whatever can go wrong, will go wrong" (or, alternately, "Anything that can go wrong, will").

Murphy's Law is sometimes confused with Finagle's Corollary, which is also known as Sod's law.
Sod's Law is the name for the old and famous axiom"Anything that can go wrong, will".[1] "Toast will always land butter side down" is often given as an example of Sod's Law in action. The phrase is seemingly derived, at least in part, from the colloquialism an "unlucky sod"; a term used to describe someone who has had some bad unlucky experience, and is usually used as a sympathetic reference to the person

Answer 2

Murphy's Law ("If anything can go wrong, it will") was born here (Edwards Air Force Base) – in 1949 at North Base. It was named after Capt. Edward A. Murphy, an engineer working on Air Force Project MX981, (a project) designed to see how much sudden deceleration a person can stand in a crash. One day, after finding that a transducer was wired wrong, he cursed the technician responsible and said, "If there is any way to do it wrong, he'll find it." The contractor's project manager kept a list of "laws" and added this one, which he called Murphy's Law.
Actually, what he did was take an old law that had been around for years in a more basic form (see first paragraph above) and give it a name. Shortly afterwards, the Air Force doctor (Dr. John Paul Stapp) who rode a sled on the deceleration track to a stop, pulling 40 Gs, gave a press conference. He said that their good safety record on the project was due to a firm belief in Murphy's Law and in the necessity to try and circumvent it. Aerospace manufacturers picked it up and used it widely in their ads during the next few months, and soon it was being quoted in many news and magazine articles. Murphy's Law was born.The Northrop project manager, George E. Nichols, had a few laws of his own. Nichols' Fourth Law says, "Avoid any action with an unacceptable outcome." The doctor, well-known Col. John P. Stapp, had a paradox: Stapp's Ironical Paradox, which says, "The universal aptitude for ineptitude makes any human accomplishment an incredible miracle." Nichols is still around. At NASA's Jet Propulsion Lab in Pasadena, he's the quality control manager for the Viking project to send an unmanned spacecraft to Mars.

Answer 3

Can't help but enjoyed the answers. Sods Law: I put on my jumper today because it was cold in the office yesterday, today the heating was on.
All week I have carried my umbrella, today i left it behind on the bus and today only today it rained.
Sods Law is irritating.

Answer 4

It replaced into that previous sod Murphy who desperate to make up some regulations of the possibility that if something can circulate squiffy then it is going to. particularly it would be noted as Squiffy's regulation. yet could to no longer be at a loss for words with Coles regulation he replaced right into a fool with a cabbage for a head.

Answer 5

Not sure who he was exactly but i have long suspected that he and Murphy may be related as they have the same law...perhaps one person called Sod Murphy? hmmm now there's a thought.

Answer 6

the silly sod that gets blamed for every thing

Answer 7

Someone Retarded That Couldn't Spell

Answer 8

same person as murphy i'd guess! lol