"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

That every thing Murphy says is true and should be followed. Except for the things that aren't funny, which are.... alot.
by Murphy September 10, 2003

by Karlcockmccleave February 13, 2018

by GeckoMaBoi May 2, 2023

Mollie *cough* Agnes *cough* Murphy is a known defender of the gnome kingdom known for their curly locks and curtains to match.
The Agnomes were profound in there skills of weave snatching as for this they were cursed with staggering alopecia by the great witch genetics.
Some may use the term “Agnome” to describe a tension in one’s tone.
The Agnomes were profound in there skills of weave snatching as for this they were cursed with staggering alopecia by the great witch genetics.
Some may use the term “Agnome” to describe a tension in one’s tone.
Ok Mollie Murphy we get it ur hairs curly. Mollie would respond “no need to get so agnome on me now”
by Kimye September 11, 2025

The act of leaving a bar, restaurant, or other social gathering, usually serving alcohol, without informing your friends or party in advance, or only sharing the information with a select one/few before your departure. Chicago Southside in origin.
"Hey, anyone see Mick?"
"Ahh, the bastard musta pulled the Murphy Duck..."
"FFS... My ex just showed up. I'm gonna pull a Murphy Duck out the back before she sees me. Later..."
"Ahh, the bastard musta pulled the Murphy Duck..."
"FFS... My ex just showed up. I'm gonna pull a Murphy Duck out the back before she sees me. Later..."
by Captain Pimptastic March 1, 2023

by Fart Murphy November 16, 2023
