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From: ewb@raybed2.UUCP (EUGENE BALINSKI)
Newsgroups: rec.aviation,rec.ham-radio,sci.electronics
Subject: Humor
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Date: 18 Jan 88 20:46:26 GMT
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Organization: Raytheon Co., Bedford, Mass.
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Keywords: Laws for Homebuilders

Enclosed is a list of postulates, laws, observations, etc that apply to
hobbiest of all sorts, wether it's airplanes, ham radio, or other 
projects that you build. I hope you enjoy them.

BOOB'S LAW:
You'll always find a tool in the last place you look

RAP'S INANIMATE REPRODUCTION LAW:
If you take something apart and put it back together again enough times,
you will eventually have two of them.

GOLUB'S 2nd LAW OF HOMEBUILDING:
A carelessly planned homebuilding project takes three times longer than 
expected to complete; a carefully planned one takes only twice as long.

HORNER'S FIVE THUMB POSTULATE:
Experience varies directly with material ruined.

BRAUCH'S OBSERVATION:
If all you have is a hammer, then everything looks like a nail.

BROMBERGS LAW OF TOOL USE:
When the need arises, the tool or object closest to you becomes a hammer.

THE ROMAN RULE:
The one who say's that it can't be done, should not interrupt the one who is 
doing it.

 THE 90-90 RULE:
The first 90% of a project takes 10% of the time, and tha last 10% takes
90% of the time.

ENG'S PRINCIPLE:
The easier it is to do, the harder it is to change.

SCHMIDT'S LW;
If you fiddle with a thing long enough, it will break.

BUNGEY'S 1st LAW:
The nut won't go on until you utter the magic word.

BUNGEY'S 2nd LAW:
When your about to use the magic word, there will be children present.

LAW OF THE SEARCH:
The first place to look for a droped part is the last place you expect to find 
it.      

RINGWALD'S LAW OF WORKBENCH GEOMETRY:
A horrizontal surface will soon be piled up.

NAESER'S LAW:
You can make it foolproof, but you cannot make it dxxx foolproof.

WETHERN'S LAW OF SUSPENDED JUDGEMENT:
Assumption is the mother of all screw-ups.

FEMO'S LAW OF HOMEBUILDING:
If you drop something, it will never hit the ground.

PRISSY'S RULE:
If you don't know what you're doing, do it neatly.

TELECO'S 2nd LAW:
There are two kinds of tape, the one that won't stay on, and the one that
won't come off.    

JAFFE'S PRECEPT:
There are some things that are impossible to do, but it is impossible to know
what they are.

BEACHES LAW:
No two identical parts are alike.

THE FIRST RULE OF INTELLIGENT TINKERING:
Save all parts.


re-printed from the ALANTIC FLYER MAGAZINE, Jan. '88, p. B20