[Ads-l] Murphy's Law

[Bill Mullins]

Nothing earthshaking, just a couple more lines in the story.



1927 Amateur Movie Makers 29/2

But just the moment the number of people in the audience gets up to that figure to constitute a crowd, you can count upon it that everything that can go wrong will go wrong.

https://archive.org/details/amateurmoviemake12amat/page/n80/mode/1up?q=%22can+go+wrong+will%22



1953 Science Stories Oct 8/1 ("Hocus-Pocus Universe" by Jack Williamson)

I imagine the failure was due to another law of science, that I had almost forgotten. It is called Casey’s law. It applies to all scientific experiments. It states that everything that can go wrong will go wrong.

https://archive.org/details/Science_Stories_01_1953-10_cape1736/page/n7/mode/1up?q=%22can+go+wrong+will%22

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