Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site dciem.UUCP Path: utzoo!dciem!mmt From: mmt@dciem.UUCP (Martin Taylor) Newsgroups: net.books,net.nlang,net.jokes.d Subject: Re: Murphy's Laws Message-ID: <1210@dciem.UUCP> Date: Sun, 18-Nov-84 15:26:53 EST Article-I.D.: dciem.1210 Posted: Sun Nov 18 15:26:53 1984 Date-Received: Sun, 18-Nov-84 18:23:43 EST References: <2717@ncsu.UUCP> Organization: D.C.I.E.M., Toronto, Canada Lines: 13 For those interested in the various Laws of Natural Disaster, I can recommend "The Official Rules: the definitive, annotated collection of laws, principles, and instructions for dealing with the real world" compiled by Paul Dickson, New York: Delacorte Press 1978. (To which I have added Taylor's Law: "If it looks like a law, it probably isn't; if it is a law, it is probably not valid; if it is a valid law, it is this one.") -- Martin Taylor {allegra,linus,ihnp4,floyd,ubc-vision}!utzoo!dciem!mmt {uw-beaver,qucis,watmath}!utcsrgv!dciem!mmt