Also known as the 4x4 Rule.
When trying to figure out what a project will cost and how long it will take you take the worst case scenarios that you can possibly imagine for both time and cost. When you have those 2 numbers you then multiply them both by 4 and that will give you an accurate estimate of what the project will actually cost and how long it will actually take to complete.
When trying to figure out what a project will cost and how long it will take you take the worst case scenarios that you can possibly imagine for both time and cost. When you have those 2 numbers you then multiply them both by 4 and that will give you an accurate estimate of what the project will actually cost and how long it will actually take to complete.
Customer: it’s April. We were supposed to be done in January!
Contractor: Right.
Customer: This invoice is for $4000 and the estimate was for $1000!
Contractor: Right.
Customer: What the actual f%#k?!?!
Contractor: Hutson’s Law is scarily accurate.
Contractor: Right.
Customer: This invoice is for $4000 and the estimate was for $1000!
Contractor: Right.
Customer: What the actual f%#k?!?!
Contractor: Hutson’s Law is scarily accurate.
by Crash Hawthorne September 19, 2021
Get the Hutson’s Lawmug. The thesis stating that one obvious and preventable death is fated to happen before any obvious solutions, changes or reforms are enacted, ie. decapitation by ice skates when playing hockey and the introduction of neck guards to the sport.
Person 1: "Hey, do you remember that shaky pipe at the bottom of the apartment building that the landlord never fixed?"
Person 2: "Yeah! What about it?
Person 1: "Well, it finally busted and the valve domed someone on the head and killed him! And after that, of course NOW the landlord decides to fix it!"
Person 2: "How preventable. The Tamr Law takes another..."
Person 2: "Yeah! What about it?
Person 1: "Well, it finally busted and the valve domed someone on the head and killed him! And after that, of course NOW the landlord decides to fix it!"
Person 2: "How preventable. The Tamr Law takes another..."
by xxdragonwolftamr January 30, 2024
Get the The Tamr Lawmug. Spouse's great-great-grandnibling's wife.
My co-great-great-grandniece-in-law is a good person.
by Wonbig October 13, 2021
Get the co-great-great-grandniece-in-lawmug. The granddaughter-in-law of one's parent-in-law's sibling.
by Elivaldeq November 24, 2019
Get the first co-cousin-niece-in-lawmug. The third law of thugonamics states: the one who sent the cheeked up pineapple is trying to cover up the fact that he lied
OJ Simpson proceeds to send a dancing pineapple with a big butt after the glove doesn’t fit. This is an example of the Third Law of Thugonomics
by Nike Toon October 19, 2025
Get the Third law of Thugonomicsmug. "Did you hear she's dating that guy Jacob"
"No surprise, she's bi and he plays videogames. That's Fonteneau's law"
"No surprise, she's bi and he plays videogames. That's Fonteneau's law"
by maskmakesurbandictionary January 23, 2021
Get the Fonteneau's lawmug.