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Surfy's Law

A law with corollaries outlining the Murphy's Law of Surfing:

When you are paddling out to the take off zone, there will inevitably be a huge set of waves that breaks on your head and insures that you will be exhausted and demoralized.

First Corollary of Surfy's Law: When you finally make it to the line-up after paddling through a set, there will be no sets of waves breaking that you can catch or ride.

Second Corollary of Surfy's Law: When you do take off on a wave and ride it to the inside, there will be another set that arises to impede your paddle out to the line-up.
"Dude, I got worked by six mackin' double overhead freight trains on my paddle out. It was like total enforcement of Surfy's Law!"
by WordSurfer January 14, 2013
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dumbfuck law

Similar to Goodwin's Law. Any discussion pointing out a countries problems will include, within the first 20 comments, a reference to how the USA is worse with regard to that particular problem.

First proposed on slashdot
China has a bad pollution problem.

Applying dumbfuck law: Yeah, but its no where near as bad as America's love of the Hummer.
by mr xqzy January 15, 2013
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Jobwin's Law

the rule that if given enough time in any online discussion about Apple, someone will eventually make a comparison to Steve Jobs would have done differently (a variation on Goodwin's law)
"If Steve Jobs were alive, he would have never allowed that color choice on the new packaging."
OR
"Steve Jobs must be rolling in his grave over the new Apple commercials!"

"Can we please stop mentioning Steve Jobs' name everything Apple does something we don't like? Jobwin's law is really pissing me off right now."
by somethingelsefl August 2, 2012
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Nicky's Law

When you stand in line for something and the line gets significantly longer after you get in line
A: Good thing we lined up 5 minutes ago, the line got twice as long.

B: That's Nicky's Law!
by ykjs June 23, 2013
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Du's Law

Du's Law is similar to Godwins Law in some respects. Du's Law is an assertion that has become an Internet adage. It states: "As an online discussion grows longer, so does the probability of a reference to Wikipedia. In other words, Du said that, given enough time, in any online discussion—regardless of topic or scope—someone inevitably makes reference to Wikipedia. The calling of Du's Law immediately ends the argument.
<person_one>My point is totally valid! <insert wikipedia reference>
<person_two>I site Du's Law, thus winning this arguement.
by ShaiTan September 5, 2013
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foxie's law

States that whenever Tor or Bitcoin is mentioned, the longer the conversation goes on the higher the chance that Child pornography or Silk Road will be mentioned, even though these are not the main uses nor design of the systems
<Josh> k gonna use tor with my nook
<Josh> yolo
<Mark> why?
<Sam> Mark: so he can do illegal stuff
<Mark> foxie's law.
by apolloh September 7, 2013
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Cheyenne Laws

by qazer99 November 25, 2011
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