Funniest Murphy's Laws
The funniest Murphy's Laws are funny because they are true. They turn a familiar failure into a sentence people want to repeat.
What makes one funny
- It is specific enough to picture immediately.
- It has a clean reversal or escalation.
- It sounds like a joke but behaves like a warning.
Examples of the shape
Work expands to fill the time available, and then asks for an extension. The printer works until the meeting starts. The line you leave begins moving the moment you leave it.