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malibu Nov 13, 2003

so i just wanna ask what murphy's law is?

bizarret Nov 13, 2003

to sum up: anything that can go wrong, will.

malibu Nov 13, 2003

where is it from?

yodasucka Nov 13, 2003

i thought it was something to do with math...

bizarret Nov 13, 2003

haha! math is for dumm peepl

yodasucka Nov 13, 2003

i kno... this is y i failed every math i've ever taken.. but for real.. isn't it a math thing?

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dgiaimoOG 2003

I don't think so.

yodasucka yodasuckaOG 2003

haha ok ur right... its not... i was thinking of Kramers Law... which is completely different.. ok i'm done being stupid...

bizarret bizarretOG 2003

no, kramer. that's a different show. he's on Seinfeld.

but seriously the origin is:

"Murphy's Law ("If anything can go wrong, it will") was born at Edwards Air Force Base in 1949 at North Base.

It was named after Capt. Edward A. Murphy, an engineer working on Air Force Project MX981, (a project) designed to see how much sudden deceleration a person can stand in a crash.

One day, after finding that a transducer was wired wrong, he cursed the technician responsible and said, "If there is any way to do it wrong, he'll find it."

The contractor's project manager kept a list of "laws" and added this one, which he called Murphy's Law."

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malibu malibuOG 2001

it def. sounded like something from the military.

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dgiaimoOG 2003

I think you mean Cramer's Law.

yodasucka yodasuckaOG 2003

yea thats what i meant!!!! i learned about taht in algebra 2

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