I am not a believer in seances, but I went to one just to see what they are like. The psychic was doing his thing and grinning from ear to ear. I assumed his merriment was due to the fact that he was fooling a gullible public and gave him a poke in the nose. You can probably guess the rest. I was arrested for striking a happy medium.
* Lermans Law of Technology: Any technical problem can be overcome given enough time and money.
Corollary: You are never given enough time or money.
* Murphys First Law for Wives: If you ask your husband to pick up five items at the store and then you add one more as an afterthought, he will forget two of the first five.
* Law of the Search: The first place to look for anything is the last place you would expect to find it.
Corollary: It will not be in the last place you expect to find it.
* Kauffmans Paradox of the Corporation: The less important you are to the corporation, the more your tardiness or absence is noticed.
* The Salary Axiom: The pay raise is just large enough to increase your taxes and just small enough to have no effect on your take-home pay.
* Millers Law of Insurance: Insurance covers everything except what happens.
* First Law of Living: As soon as you start doing what you always wanted to be doing, youll want to be doing something else.
* Weiners Law of Libraries: There are no answers, only cross-references.
* Isaacs Strange Rule of Staleness: Any food that starts out hard will soften when stale. Any food that starts out soft will harden when stale.
* Kennys Law of Auto Repair: The part requiring the most consistent repair or replacement will be housed in the most inaccessible location.
* Second Law of Business Meetings: If there are two possible ways to spell a persons name, you will pick the wrong one.
Corollary – If there is only one way to spell a name, you will spell it wrong anyway.
* The Grocery Bag Law: The candy bar you planned to
eat on the way home from the market is hidden at the
bottom of the grocery bag.
* Yeagers Law: Washing machines break down only during the wash cycle.
Corollary: All breakdowns occur on the plumbers day off.
* Lampners Law of Employment: When leaving work late, you will go unnoticed. When you leave work early, you will meet the boss in the parking lot.
* Quiles Consultation Law: The job that pays the most will be offered when there is no time to deliver the services.
* Loftus Law: Some people manage by the book, even though they dont know who wrote the book or even which book it is.
* Lovkas Dilemma: You never get away, you only get someplace else.
Heres a very old joke we like to tell in England i hope you like it:
A horse walks into a bar and the barman says: Why the long face?
Aladdin had 3 wishes and bin Laden only has 1 – a death wish.
He who hesitates is probably right.
I just cant find the cause for your illness, said the internist at the college clinic. Frankly, I think its due to drinking.
Thats OK Doc. I understand. replied the student. Ill come back when youre sober.
Digger Phelps Words of Wisdom
From the NCAA Tournament:
Basketball is a game of two halves.
We have to remember that whoever scores the most points by the end wins.
Youre either a good team or a bad team, and they played somewhere in the middle.
Hes like all great players — not great yet.
You dont score 86 points without being able to shoot.
There is no safety in numbers, or in anything else.
Q: What is the blonde doing when she holds her hands tightly over her ears?
A: Trying to hold on to a thought.
Q: What do the female reindeers do when the male reindeers go out with Santa on Christmas Eve?
A: They go into town and blow a few bucks.