Cupidity Law

Legal action(s) taken solely for the purpose of making money or creating wealth.
The lawyers implemented and included themselves in cupidity law tactics on specific cases in order to expand and financially enrich their law firm.
by Heeger January 23, 2008
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Apollo's Law

Any Internet discussion on a topic relating to Outer Space or Space Exploration which goes on for long enough will eventually lead to someone saying that Space exploration or Space itself is a lie/hoax.

This usually refers to Flat Earthers who don't believe that Outer space exists yet this isn't exclusive to them as some people do believe that space exists but that missions have only reached Earth orbit and not to the Moon or the other planets.
"Oh great, Another Flat Earther in the replies of a NASA tweet, Apollo's Law strikes again!"
by Cosmic Arc October 30, 2022
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Doggie law

When a dog is sleeping or settled on you. It is against doggie law to move it disturb them
Taylor was unable to move as per doggie law because his dog was asleep on his lap
by Scuba diver 100 May 08, 2023
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The Squidward Law

A law in Tv shows (more specifically cartoons) in which a character has to always get an unfair and unreasonable amount of torture as a result of karma, exactly like Squidward, hence the name.
Guy: Why does this character always get tortured a lot?
Guy 2: Well, what you are seeing is The Squidward Law in action.
by manananan April 04, 2021
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Goat's Law

A derivative coinage of Sod's Law which says that anything that can go wrong, will go wrong, with the worst possible outcome and at the end of the day, you spill coffee on yourself.
Just another example of Goat's Law.
by Goat_ September 20, 2018
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Sonephew-in-law

Sonephew-in-law: where your nephew married your daughter aka his first cousin.
Auntie: I guess I can call you my Sonephew-in-law.
by Sakurakage June 26, 2023
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Murphy's Law

"Anything that can go wrong, will go wrong".

From an inventor's viewpoint, this is ultimately an argument for keeping things simple and focused on a single task. The simpler an invention is, the less scenarios need to be considered and tested.

Another way to understand it is as though you are living in the future looking back at a problem that occurred:

"If something went wrong with your invention, it's because you didn't do anything to prevent that scenario from happening".

Examples of things you could have prevented but didn't, and thus went wrong:
- The electrical cables burned the house down because the load was too hot. This could have been prevented by adding a fuse, but you didn't.
- The water heater exploded because it didn't have a pressure release valve, which it could have had, but didn't.
- The door fell off the plane when it went upside down because the hinge pin didn't have a lock, which it could have had, but didn't.
- The Earth shifted and caused cracks in the clay pipes under the house, which could have been prevented if flexible piping was used, but it wasn't.

Again, ultimately this is a reminder to keep your invention as simple as possible. It's often tempting to keep throwing new features into it, to make it appeal to a larger audience or solve more problems, but every new feature creates new, untested possible outcomes which can be hard to predict. Hard to predict that is, until they've happened, which they will.
Inventor 1: I created a lightswitch! It has 2 possible states: on or off. I'm aware all of the scenarios that could exist!

Critic: Great, except I see you used iron on the connector pins. Did you account for the corrosive reaction if copper wire is used against the iron? Murphy's Law dictates that it will happen at some point, because it could.
by pjayyy April 11, 2019
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