Laws of the Land
New Limacon
25-09-2007, 22:45
Intellectual that I am, I just received an issue of Smithsonian magazine and was reading the last column in the magazine, which is usually humorous. This months was about "folk laws", that is, laws of nature created to describe human behavior, such as Godwin's or Murphy's. What is your favorite folk law? Or, what do you think should be a folk law?
EDIT: Here (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Adages) is a link with plenty of these laws.
The Parkus Empire
25-09-2007, 23:06
Intellectual that I am, I just received an issue of Smithsonian magazine and was reading the last column in the magazine, which is usually humorous. This months was about "folk laws", that is, laws of nature created to describe human behavior, such as Godwin's or Murphy's. What is your favorite folk law? Or, what do you think should be a folk law?
EDIT: Here (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Adages) is a link with plenty of these laws.
"If everyone is equal then everyone is miserable."
New Limacon
25-09-2007, 23:24
"If everyone is equal then everyone is miserable."
Do you have a title? The laws are more fun if they have pointless names.
I would like to suggest "Kim's Law", after the man who continues to put it into effect.
Laterale
25-09-2007, 23:31
Murphy's law, but my family has seen fit to name it after ourselves, because everything that can go wrong, does.
Lex Llewdor
25-09-2007, 23:53
I'm a big fan of Parkinson's Law. Bureaucracy expands over time.
The British comedy Yes, Minister once illustrated it in an exchange between a Minister and his top civil servant, Sir Humphrey:
MINISTER: But, surely, the purpose of the civil service is to serve the people!
HUMPHREY: No, Minister. The purpose of the civil service is to grow.
Dontgonearthere
26-09-2007, 00:03
-Don't ever be the first, don't ever be the last and don't ever volunteer to do anything.
-The most dangerous thing in the world is a Second Lieutenant with a map and a compass.
Eh, theyre everywhere. I find the military ones the most amusing.
Good Lifes
26-09-2007, 00:39
The early bird may get the worm,
but the second mouse gets the cheese.
Slythros
26-09-2007, 01:12
The early bird may get the worm,
but the second mouse gets the cheese.
And what does the first mouse get?
Bitchkitten
26-09-2007, 01:23
And what does the first mouse get?
Dead, honey. He's the one who got his neck broken in the mousetrap.
And what does the first mouse get?
...probably a broken spinal column..