What CAN go wrong WILL go wrong and DOES!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sod's_law
2007-03-01 03:41:20
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answered by Anonymous
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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
2007-03-01 03:43:25
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answered by theemadmonkey 4
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SOD'S LAW, ALSO KNOWN AS MURPHY'S LAW. If anything can go wrong, it will.
O'TOOLE'S COMMENTARY ON MURPHY'S LAW. Murphy was an optimist.
THE FIRST COROLLARY TO SOD'S LAW. Anything that is to go wrong will do so at the worst possible moment.
THE UNSPEAKABLE LAW. As soon as you mention something, if it's good, it goes away; if it's bad, it happens.
NON-RECIPROCAL LAWS OF EXPECTATIONS. Negative expectations yield negative results. Positive expectations yield negative results.
HOWE'S LAW. Every man has a scheme which will not work.
ZYMURGY'S FIRST LAW OF EVOLVING SYSTEM DYNAMICS. Once you open a can of worms, the only way to re-can them is to use a larger can.
SKINNER'S CONSTANT. The quantity which must be multiplied by, divided by, added to or subtracted from the answer you get to give the answer you should have got.
LAW OF SELECTIVE GRAVITY. An object will fall so as to do the most damage.
JENNING'S COROLLARY. The chance of the bread falling with the buttered side down is directly proportional to the cost of the carpet.
BARTH'S DISTINCTION. There are two types of people: those who divide people into two types and those who do not.
NINETY-NINETY RULE OF PROJECT SCHEDULES. The first 90% of the job takes 90% of the time, the last 10% takes the other 90%.
FARBER'S RULE. Necessity is the mother of strange bedfellows.
2007-03-01 03:48:03
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answered by Starla_C 7
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If anything can possibly go wrong, then it will!
Like, it's always Sod's Law that if you drop a piece of toast, it will ALWAYS fall butter-side down. That's Sod's Law for you!
Of course, it is Sod's Law that you won't choose this as your best answer but you could prove old Sod wrong for once!
2007-03-01 03:46:51
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answered by gorgeousfluffpot 5
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Buy a lottery ticket for Wednesday and Saturday, and Sod's Law says that the numbers for Saturday will come up in the Wednesday Ticket or vice verca!
2007-03-01 03:51:07
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answered by Anonymous
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OK "sod" is pictured as a, well, nuisance/sod! and if something goes wrong then people say that it was his law. so its sods law that I'm board at the moment! lol
2007-03-01 03:53:18
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answered by Mrs E Cullen 2
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Murphys law is what can go wrong will go wrong. Sods law is similar but not quite. e.g. the odds of toast landing butter side down is proportional to the value of the carpet etc.
2007-03-01 03:42:57
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answered by dave 1
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Sods law is when the worse thing that you don't want to happen, happens
2007-03-01 03:42:28
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answered by Anonymous
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it means if it can go wrong it will
but it can also be if you lose something and find something else that is inferior for example if you lose £10/$10 and find 10p/10c thats sods law
2007-03-01 03:45:47
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answered by nightwallwriter 2
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The chap who first observed that the toast consistently lands buttered section down on a carpeted floor - the thickness of the butter being promptly proportional to the size of the shag, with the point to communicate.
2016-11-26 22:07:54
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answered by ? 4
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SOD'S LAW is irony.
2007-03-01 03:50:49
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answered by Anonymous
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