by syafinaz? October 22, 2023
Get the Someone at Australia is my cousin but that in law whom I just met is over.mug. "You can sit around at home till Doomsday and the prices at the pumps will stay fairly low, incessantly tempting you to travel. But the moment you decide to take off somewhere and head out on your trip, the price for a gallon of gas will go right through the roof!"
Gas-prices seemed fairly "stable" all summer, and so I delayed a road-trip for a while to "save up" or "accumulate" a number of errands so that hopefully my trip would be more cost-effective with regards to gas-consumption, but then when I stopped to fill up my tank in the morning when I was first heading out, the price had suddenly jumped over a quarter higher per gallon! Sounds like a classic case of "Murphy's Law of Gasoline Prices" to me!
by QuacksO September 12, 2019
Get the Murphy's Law of Gasoline Pricesmug. My half-nibling-in-law is a good person.
by Elivaldeq November 24, 2019
Get the half-nibling-in-lawmug. by Don'ttouchmytiddies November 29, 2021
Get the Law of Lifemug. "You can heave and strain on da wrench till Doomsday and never get a stubborn bolt loosened, but then just as soon as you ask a stronger --- and probably very busy himself --- person to come and help, DAT'S when da blasted bolt actually WILL yield, either when you give a final demonstrative yank on da wrench to show da second person how supposedly stuck da bolt is, or when he himself hauls back on da wrench and said previously-cranky bolt unscrews with little effort on his part, indicating dat your OWN last tug actually HAD cracked it free after all, and so if you had 'just given it one more go' yourself, you actually COULD have gotten da bolt out on your own, without having to interrupt your now-ears-smokingly-annoyed-at-being-needlessly-called-away colleague in da first place."
I wonder if da inventor of da impact wrench had originally felt prompted to do so due to his having frequently encountered Murphy's Law of Bolt-Loosening???
by QuacksO February 13, 2023
Get the Murphy's Law of Bolt-Looseningmug. "You can patronize the slots till Doomsday or buy any number of scratch-off tickets and never gain any significant winnings, but then just as soon as you stop playing, the very next player will win big."
Many an addicted gamer believes in Murphy's Law of Gambling, even though it is indeed :"all chance" and thus seldom actually works out that way.
by QuacksO September 12, 2019
Get the Murphy's Law of Gamblingmug. If there is an unprotected web poll, Nomar Garciaparra will win it.
In 1999, Major League Baseball had a simplistic web poll for positions on the All-Star Team. Chris Nandor used a short Perl program to vote for Red Sox shortstop Nomar Garciaparra 14,000 times. This was then referenced in the "Louise, Revisited" episode of Sports Night where Jeremy uploads a Perl program to vote overwhelmingly for Casey. Nandor told ESPN "there has never been a Web-based poll that people haven't done this. It's pretty much standard procedure."
In 1999, Major League Baseball had a simplistic web poll for positions on the All-Star Team. Chris Nandor used a short Perl program to vote for Red Sox shortstop Nomar Garciaparra 14,000 times. This was then referenced in the "Louise, Revisited" episode of Sports Night where Jeremy uploads a Perl program to vote overwhelmingly for Casey. Nandor told ESPN "there has never been a Web-based poll that people haven't done this. It's pretty much standard procedure."
by Not Tom Brady January 25, 2021
Get the Nandor's Lawmug.