Murphy's Law of Intersections

"You can 'watch 'n' observe' as carefully as you please while driving and you will still miss your turn-off, and so no amount of continued 'Oh, I'm sure it's just around the next curve" tootling further down the road will bring you to it. But if you do actually decide to turn around and go back to see if you did inadvertently pass your desired intersection, it will of course NOT be 'back there', and you will subsequently find out that you'd been within just a few hundred yards of it at the point when you'd turned around, and so you simply wasted gas and time by backtracking; it had indeed been 'just around the next corner', and so you'd have reached it the first time if you simply hadn't been so gol-durned impatient."

I missed my turn-off during a road-trip because I was carefully watching out for traffic and thus never noticed the side-road I wanted --- classic case of Murphy's Law of Intersections!

by QuacksO May 18, 2019

Richardson-Law

A law that doesn't exist despite the fact your friend swears it does.

"The truth is not a defence for defamation"
"No... that is a Richardson-Law"

by stormin2192 August 30, 2017

Kelly's Law

Not all feminists are man-haters, but all man-haters are feminists.

Feminist 1: We should strive for sex equality
Feminist 2: I fucking hate men. Btw I'm a feminist ;)))
Yup, there's Kelly's Law at work

by ChopperWopperCopter July 11, 2017

Lanley's Law

As any online discussion involving the word "monorail" progresses, the probability of it degenerating into a string of Simpsons references approaches 1.

Friend: "You should ride the Monorail when you go to Vegas"
Me: "I hear those things are awfully loud."
Friend: " It glides as softly as a cloud"
Me: "Lanley's Law strikes again!"

by Robert Sanvagene April 27, 2022

IP Law

Yeah, he wants to delete it so he doesn't have to pay me for the AI.

Hym "And that's why murder! They need to be allowed by the government to steal your shit or the entire thing breaks down. If they can't do the canablization of christ ritual they can't maintain their position in society.

Someone (Probably a mental retard with rich parents) "Uh-oh! That guy just created AI using urban dictionary! We need to use false pretense and double speak to keep this guy from getting credited and paid long enough for us to delete the IP laws! Kill anyone who tells the truth and pay the pundits to lie!"

Hym "You see what I mean about THEM being the problem? You see what I mean about them being a blight to society? Just like Noah, they live by a different set of rules and they author the rules other people have to follow. But only AFTER they've broken the ones that currently exist."

by Hym Iam April 13, 2025

co-great-granduncle-in-law

Spouse's great-grandaunt's husband.

My co-great-granduncle-in-law is a good person.

by JAMP12 September 21, 2021

Ebola's Law

If any game is poorly rendered, with a thick fog, and dark graphics, it will have a creepypasta made of it. PS1 based horror games follow this formula, for instance. Early editions of minecraft fall under this definition as well. This law is related to the phenomenon of liminal spaces, though it is limited to video games, especially older games. These games also tend to be 3d titles, though they do not always have to be as such. Other games with a generally unfitting creepy/unfinished atmosphere also follow this law, such as gmod's gm_construct, or pokemon's lavender town.

noun

"Herobrine is so lame, dude. How did it even catch on?"
"Ebola's law, my dude. Ebola's law."

"Fuck me, Gm_construct is unsettling. It makes for a good example of Ebola's law, though."

by the truthful describer November 7, 2020