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Parkinson's law 

Parkinson's law is an administrative principle that states that work tends to expand in relation to the time available for its completion. From C. Northcote Parkinson, a professor of the University of Malaysia, who first wrote of this law. While Parkinson, like Laurence J. Peter, apparently wrote his book as a satire on administration, unfortunately it turned out to be true.
It's a sad rule of corporations, and universities are not exempt, that the administrative apparatus tends to expand with time. Unfortunately, this is accompanied by stasis in what is accomplished. Parkinson's law holds true.
Parkinson's law by eViL pOp TaRt September 9, 2005
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Parkinson's law for warez and porn 

Parkinson's law states that "work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion." Extensive research by volunteers has shown that for warez and porn, a similar principle applies. The applied Parkinson's law states that "warez and porn expand so as to fill the storage space available." The law's application in this context suggests also that warez and porn are gaseous in nature.

In practice this means that over time, the storage space occupied by warez and porn files increases to fill any void present on the writable storage medium they are contained on. During research it was shown that no matter how large the researcher's hard drives grew, warez and porn always expanded to fill any space available.

Some of the longer-term researchers also reported that the growth rate of warez and porn seemed to closely follow Moore's law. Further research is required to determine if this is the cause or an effect of Parkinson's law's applicability to warez and porn. It is even possible that the inverse is true - that warez and porn are in fact the cause for Moore's law in the first place.
Damn that Parkinson - my porn drive is full again.

I know - warez and porn expand so as to fill the storage space available.

Yeah, that's why they call it the lame reference to Parkinson's law for warez and porn.

Rosa Parkinson's 

A disease characterized by the inability to get up from your bus seat when told to.

Other symptoms include the difficulty to follow directions, an enlarged ego, a love of sitting up front, and being black.
"She wouldn't move to the back even though the front is dedicated for the handicapped."

"She must have a severe case of Rosa Parkinson's."

Parallel Parkinson's

An inability to parallel park. Sufferers of this disease may try five and six times to guide their vehicle into an open space before finally giving up, and leaving the automobile 2-3 feet from the curb at an awkward angle.
Her Parallel Parkinson's always seemed to flare up when she found a space in front of a restaurant with a big window full of on-lookers.
Word of the Day on October 22, 2014

Planetary Parkinson's 

A syndrome of constant planet-shaking as demonstrated by Earth in early 2010.
Poor Haiti was th first major victim of Earth's sudden development of Planetary Parkinson's.

parkinson's pussy 

Is when a girl fucks you hard and you shake like crazy while cumming
I started to shake after I fucked her... is like she had a parkinson's pussy
parkinson's pussy by dito69 December 10, 2009

Linkin Parkinson's Disease 

A condition in which one suffers from overwhelming body spasms, the constant metamorphosis of hair on ones head, tourettes-like yelling and random changing of your vocal characteristics
Billy: did you see Tom at the ITunes festival yesterday? He looked crazy, what was wrong with him?

Jake: he was suffering from an insane case of Linkin Parkinson's Disease.