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Murphy's Law
If there is a possibility of several things going wrong with the server, the one that will cause the most damage will be the one to go wrong.

Murphy's Law
If there is a worse time for the server to go bonkers, it will happen then.

Murphy's Law
If you perceive that there are four possible ways in which a thread can get hijacked, and circumvent these, then a fifth way, unprepared for, will promptly develop.

Murphy's Law
If a discussion seems to be going well, you have obviously overlooked something.

Murphy's Law
Every great idea always has a hidden flaw.

Murphy's Law
Whenever you set out to correct a problem, there's always another way you were supposed to do it.

Murphy's Law
Every solution breeds new problems.

Murphy's Law
You can get away with saying anything at all as long as you act serious and provide a link.

Murphy's Law
Smile... tomorrow will be worse.

Murphy's Law
Left to themselves, threads tend to go from bad to worse.

Murphy's Law
You never run out of things that can go wrong.

Murphy's Law
No battle plan ever survives contact with the enemy.

Murphy's Law
If your argument is going well, you are walking into an ambush.

Murphy's Law
The only thing more accurate than incoming enemy fire is incoming friendly fire.

Murphy's Law
Logic is a systematic method of coming to the wrong conclusion with confidence.

Murphy's Law
An expert is one who knows more and more about less and less until he knows absolutely everything about nothing.

Murphy's Law
All's well that ends.

(Thanks to About.com)

No godmodder survives contact with the IC forums

If it's stupid, and it doesn't work, some n00b will try it anyway

The less someone knows about actual warfare, the more they will participate in it

1 nation against 1 nation x5 alliances with 20 nations equals a flamewar

The less of a knowledge someone has about realistic budget, the more uber death grav spaceships they will have.

1 n00b+1 day old nation+one spacefleet post=0 IQ

Good ones!

Some are not just true in NS I fear, such as "The less someone knows about actual warfare, the more they will participate in it "

*Tag*

Some of those were great...

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The more you advertise your region, the more inactive it will become

The more members in your alliance, the less that would help you

The server always crashes just as you write a 1000 word post and are about to post it

The younger the nation, the more people it will give out its MSN/YIM/AIM too

Say anything stupid and lapse will smack you around the back of the head :P

oh, and your grand mother will always look over your shoulder just as a another ****_dickula appears

Your boss is tracking you with spyware when tubgirl comes on.

Collabaration, aHave you ever heard of Finagles Law?

Jim

Larry Niven is a plagiarist :evil:

OK I'll Btie: Why do you say that?

And murphy was an optimist.

Jim.

If you multiply 325.6 x the amount a topic annoys you, that is how many times threads will be started about it.

OK I'll Btie: Why do you say that?

And murphy was an optimist.

Jim.

Niven imho invented Finagle and stole the words from poor dead Murphy's mouth, that's why.


that, and I'm tired and grumpy! :P

OK I'll Btie: Why do you say that?

And murphy was an optimist.

Jim.

Niven imho invented Finagle and stole the words from poor dead Murphy's mouth, that's why.


that, and I'm tired and grumpy! :P

OK, But I do agree that Murphy WAS an optimist.

Jim

If you multiply 325.6 x the amount a topic annoys you, that is how many times threads will be started about it.
so many gay/n00b/george bush threads