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So, while you're fretting about inflation, burgeoning regulations, decreasing Medicare and HMO reimbursements, declining NIH support, and so on, it may help to add a bit of laughter to your life. Recent medical studies have shown that those who enjoy laughing at themselves and their surroundings are actually healthier than those who don't. It goes to show you, the surly bird gets the germ.
A colleague sends me a calendar every year. Not your ordinary daybook, this one is a Murphy's Law calendar. Each day has a different restatement of Murphy's theorem, “If anything can go wrong, it will.” I decided to pick out the best 10 so far this year, and here they are (in no particular order):
1. P.K. Dick's Rule
Reality is what refuses to go away when you stop believing in it.
2. Lemar's Parking Postulate
If you have to park six blocks away, you will find two new parking spaces right in front of the building entrance.
3. Miller's Law of Insurance
Insurance covers everything except what happens.
4. Malone's Law of the Household
If you wait all day for the repairman, you'll wait all day. If you go out for five minutes, he'll arrive and leave while you're gone.
5. Jilly's Law
The worse the haircut, the slower it grows out.
6. Bedfellow's Rule
The one who snores will fall asleep first.
7. Herbert's Law
A bureaucracy is an organization that has raised stupidity to the status of a religion.
8. Sixth Law of Office Murphology
The last person who quit or was fired will be held responsible for everything that goes wrong—until the next person quits or is fired.
9. Primary Political Law
A good slogan beats a good solution.
10. Milliken's Maxim
Insanity is doing the same thing the same way and expecting different results.
Finally, I give you a quote told to me recently, attributed to Albert Einstein: “There are two things that are infinite—the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not certain about the former.”
So, while you're fretting about inflation, burgeoning regulations, decreasing Medicare and HMO reimbursements, declining NIH support, and so on, it may help to add a bit of laughter to your life. Recent medical studies have shown that those who enjoy laughing at themselves and their surroundings are actually healthier than those who don't. It goes to show you, the surly bird gets the germ.
A colleague sends me a calendar every year. Not your ordinary daybook, this one is a Murphy's Law calendar. Each day has a different restatement of Murphy's theorem, “If anything can go wrong, it will.” I decided to pick out the best 10 so far this year, and here they are (in no particular order):
1. P.K. Dick's Rule
Reality is what refuses to go away when you stop believing in it.
2. Lemar's Parking Postulate
If you have to park six blocks away, you will find two new parking spaces right in front of the building entrance.
3. Miller's Law of Insurance
Insurance covers everything except what happens.
4. Malone's Law of the Household
If you wait all day for the repairman, you'll wait all day. If you go out for five minutes, he'll arrive and leave while you're gone.
5. Jilly's Law
The worse the haircut, the slower it grows out.
6. Bedfellow's Rule
The one who snores will fall asleep first.
7. Herbert's Law
A bureaucracy is an organization that has raised stupidity to the status of a religion.
8. Sixth Law of Office Murphology
The last person who quit or was fired will be held responsible for everything that goes wrong—until the next person quits or is fired.
9. Primary Political Law
A good slogan beats a good solution.
10. Milliken's Maxim
Insanity is doing the same thing the same way and expecting different results.
Finally, I give you a quote told to me recently, attributed to Albert Einstein: “There are two things that are infinite—the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not certain about the former.”
