Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/5/84; site mmm.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!cbosgd!ihnp4!mmm!mrgofor From: mrgofor@mmm.UUCP (MKR) Newsgroups: net.rumor Subject: Re: The End Of The Universe Message-ID: <600@mmm.UUCP> Date: Thu, 13-Mar-86 12:06:12 EST Article-I.D.: mmm.600 Posted: Thu Mar 13 12:06:12 1986 Date-Received: Sun, 16-Mar-86 09:58:39 EST References: <680@drutx.UUCP> <179@moncol.UUCP> Reply-To: mrgofor@mmm.UUCP (MKR) Organization: none Lines: 27 In article <179@moncol.UUCP> john@moncol.UUCP (John Ruschmeyer) 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. > >Ah... if you're expecting something to happen and it does, then you are >saying that one of Murphy's Laws has been violated. > >But, in this case, you were expecting the worst to happen and it didn't. >Therefore, Murphy's Law has not been violated- what you expected to happen >did not. > There is a corrallary to Murphy's Law to the effect that: "Washing your car to make it rain won't work. " -- --MKR If Man were meant to use the metric system, Jesus would have had 10 disciples.