Murphy's laws are awesome would be an understatement and I love reading them as they really do strike a chord with reality. I'm a member in orkut's Murphy's law community where countless Murphy's laws are listed. Recently, I came across a few Murphy's laws which I strongly believe don't actually qualify as Murphy's Law. There are two so called Murphy's law that I would like to contradict :
1. One never gets an engaged tone when he dials a wrong number.
2. Ones nose starts to itch when his hands are greased.
There is this Murphy's law that states "one never gets an engaged tone when he dials a wrong number". Well for starters, one can never know that he has dialed the wrong number if he gets an engaged tone. It is only after the call is attended, the person gets to know whether he has dialed the correct number or the wrong number. If the call goes unattended or if the caller get an engaged tone, the caller is least bothered to verify the genuineness of the number dialed and proceeds to make the call again. So I think this so called Murphy's law sucks.
There is another Murphy's law that states "ones nose starts to itch when his hands are greased". This law sucks too. This is because, it is only when a persons hand is greased and his nose starts to itch, he realises that he can do nothing about it other than to ask someone for help or clean his hand and itch his nose. Under normal circumstances, even if ones nose starts to itch, he makes no notice of it as he is free to use his hands and itch his nose.
Basically most of the Murphy's law rocks and are very practical but the above two laws can never fit in as a Murphy's law. One can have several million reasonings before stating something but must see to it that there is no room for reasoning after stating something.
Some of my personal favourite Murphy's Law are:
1. Everything takes longer than you think.
2. You never run out of things that can go wrong.
3. Nothing ever gets built on schedule or within budget.
4. Brains x Beauty x Availability = Constant.
5. If you think education is expensive -- try ignorance!
