haha ok ur right... its not... i was thinking of Kramers Law... which is completely different.. ok i'm done being stupid...
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."
it def. sounded like something from the military.