"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
Get the Murphy's Law of Intersectionsmug. 
Godwin's Law states that "the longer a heated Internet discussion goes on for, the more likely it is that someone will compare their opponent(s) to Hitler, the Nazis, or Nazi Germany in general."
Anyone who invokes Godwin's Law in an argument is said to automatically lose by default, even if it is perfectly reasonable; because if you resort to comparing your opponent to arguably the most evil dictator in the world obviously implies that A) You know you're wrong, B) You've run out of ideas, and C) You're a sore loser and want to make your opponent look bad, even though it does the exact opposite.
The only (incredibly rare) exception is if the person is legitimately comparable to him (for example, if they are massively racist, especially anti-Semitic, for no discernible reason), but even then it usually still has the same result.
The only (incredibly rare) exception is if the person is legitimately comparable to him (for example, if they are massively racist, especially anti-Semitic, for no discernible reason), but even then it usually still has the same result.
by Ubeenbamboozledson October 13, 2022
Get the Godwin's Lawmug. by Pseudonummm num num April 22, 2023
Get the Wife-in-Lawmug. 
"The 'speed' of the Internet --- i.e., how long web-pages take to 'load' and/or respond to you mouse-clicks --- will be in direct inverse proportion to how urgently you need to view the desired material; the connection will be even slower at times there's someone else waiting for you who's also in a hurry.
My buddy needed me to hastily Google engine-bolt-torquing specs during an emergency-repair task he was struggling to get done before a downpour, but the Web was "slower dan molasses runnin' uphill in da wintertime" --- it was a classic "Murphy's Law of Internet-Speed" scenario!
by QuacksO July 28, 2018
Get the Murphy's Law of Internet-Speedmug. A term that originated in Cheezburger comments. Much like Godwin's Law, it is the claim that the longer an internet discussion goes, the more likely it is that, regardless of the topic, someone will make a rape analogy.
"Wow, that guy's pretty sexist, wonder why she's with him."
"Why is it a woman's fault for dating a jerk and not the guy's for being a jerk? This is just like when a woman gets raped, people say, 'Oh, she shouldn't have been wearing such provocative clothing, she should know better.'"
"Frunken's Law in record time."
"Why is it a woman's fault for dating a jerk and not the guy's for being a jerk? This is just like when a woman gets raped, people say, 'Oh, she shouldn't have been wearing such provocative clothing, she should know better.'"
"Frunken's Law in record time."
by NotFrunken October 14, 2014
Get the Frunken's Lawmug.