Zapped by a Stray Electrical Surge... Murphy's Law

Not bad.. 80 degrees, sun and low humidity.  Elaine and I spent time at a Doctor's office, an up-scale mall, a Farmers' Market and a grocery store.  It was an adventure, but I won't bore you with the details.

Instead, I will bore you with something else.

A few years ago, one of my "ACE" computer programmers, Chuck (Mert) Plummer gave me a copy of an article entitled: "How Washington and the World Really Work"  by Paul Dickson.   Mr. Dickson says that the  Washingtonian magazine  published a collection of laws, rules, and observations from the Murphy Center for the Codification of Human and Organizational Law.  The Murphy Center at the time was the only "think tank" in America devoted to "the study of human imperfectability and the perverse nature of inanimate objects."

Paul lists some of the new "observations" that the Murphy Center has amassed in the past year or so. For example:

Banacek's Eighteenth Polish Proverb:  "The hippo has no sting, but the wise man would rather be sat upon by the bee."  (The Banacek TV show, from Leslie Nelson.)

(I spent an hour typing in some examples.. when a momentary blink caused me to lose everything except what is shown.  This only happens rarely, but I don't feel like doing all that typing again, so, instead, I will try to type one of the "laws" within each blog entry.)