Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 (Tek) 9/28/84 based on 9/17/84; site hammer.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!bellcore!decvax!decwrl!pyramid!hplabs!tektronix!orca!hammer!hutch From: hutch@hammer.UUCP (Stephen Hutchison) Newsgroups: net.rumor Subject: Re: The End Of The Universe Message-ID: <1854@hammer.UUCP> Date: Tue, 11-Mar-86 15:42:42 EST Article-I.D.: hammer.1854 Posted: Tue Mar 11 15:42:42 1986 Date-Received: Fri, 14-Mar-86 06:35:13 EST References: <680@drutx.UUCP> <532@cisden.UUCP> <107@proper.UUCP> Reply-To: hutch@hammer.UUCP (Stephen Hutchison) Organization: Tektronix, Wilsonville OR Lines: 16 In article <107@proper.UUCP> carl@proper.UUCP (Carl Greenberg) writes: >In article <532@cisden.UUCP> phillips@cisden.UUCP (Tom Phillips) writes: >>In article <680@drutx.UUCP> pagiven@drutx.UUCP (GivenP) writes: >>>Murphy's Law (The probability of anything happening is inversely >>>proportional to its desirability), known to physicists from the >>>ancient Greek times to be one of the fundamental laws of the >>>universe, has been violated. The fabric of the space-time contin- >>>uum has been torn asunder and the end is near. >A few days ago, I walked over to a Coke machine, put a quarter in, and all >of a sudden it just dropped right through. I repeated this process a few >times, and then pushed a button: I got a free Coke! Something for nothing! >Murphy is spinning in his grave. > Carl Greenberg Especially uncomfortable for poor Murphy since he is still quite alive! Hutch