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Murphy's Law of Engine-Idling Duration

"If you leave your vehicle's engine running during a delay in proceeding (traffic-jam, road construction, accident-resolution, "stuck" red signal-light, etc.), you will be sitting there for many minutes, just wasting gas. The instant you turn the key off and climb out of your seat to stretch, however, THAT'S when the line of traffic will begin moving again, and thus you will have shut off your engine "for nothing", AND you will now be holding up everyone behind you while you hastily hop back into the driver's seat and re-start the engine so that you can move forward again."
I finally took da plunge and bought a second-hand Toyota Prius because I'd eventually had one too many cases of Murphy's Law of Engine-Idling Duration... the Prius automatically shuts down its power during stand-stills, and then uses its electric motor to provide instant mobility as soon as you're ready to go again.
by QuacksO October 20, 2018
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Fart Murphy

Fart Murphy is typically known as a lazy HVAC salesman with limited acrobatic abilities.
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James Murphy

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"No matter how storage-containers are arranged in a stack, the one you want will always be on the bottom, and so you'll have to move all of the others first."
Regardless of whether you arrange a stack of boxes in alphabetical/numerical order from top to bottom or bottom to top, Murphy's Law of stacked boxes will always "get you" --- i.e., da box you'll need will always be ether da first or last one, depending on which way you stacked them, and so you'll always need to take them all down to get to da one you need.
by QuacksO February 28, 2025
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The best ottb (off the track thoroughbred) to ever be owned by a black equestrian.
Real one: You ever heard of Injaazaat Inti Yevgeny Murphy ?
Girl: No, what’s that ?
Real one: only the best horse to ever live !
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myles murphy

A Myles Murphy is someone who is incredibly strong and sexy and has a very good future in front of him, and not to mention his MASSIVE dick he gots. He’s also a simp even in times he wishes he wasn’t. Myles Murphy also gets good grades and has A bright and successful future in front him
Today I acted like “Myles Murphy
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Murphy’s law

The law, that if something can go wrong, it will go wrong.
i keep getting epic wins, but when i actually start recording, i get no good clips, at all. must be murphy’s law.
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