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Aucbarpa.1029 net.jokes utcsrgv!utzoo!decvax!ucbvax!ARPAVAX:arnold Fri Apr 2 13:14:35 1982 Murphy's Law's Being the person who typed in all the fortunes in /usr/games/fortune for 4BSD and 2BSD UNIX, I have a plethora of variants of Murphy's Laws. I will be, however, restraintful and only submit (for the moment) my two favorites of the moment:

All probabilities are 50%-50%. Either a thing will happen or it won't.

Murphy's law applies to Murphy's law. Washing the car in order to cause rain will cause inordinately good weather.

Ken

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