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• The probability of anything happening is inversely proportional to its desirability.
  -- Gumperson's Law...
• Gumperson's Law: The probability of a given event occurring is inversely proportional to its desirability.
• Gumperson's Law The probability of anything happening is in inverse ratio to its desirability.
• The probability of anything happening is in inverse ratio to its desirability.
  -- John W. Hazard, "Changing Times" 1957...
• McGoon's Law The probability of winning is inversely proportional to the amount of the wager.
• The probability of an event's occurring varies directly with the perversity of the inanimate object involved and inversely with product of its desirability and the effort expended to produce it.
  -- Walter Mule...
• The vehemence with which an issue is debated is inversely proportional to its importance.
  -- Parkinson's Law -- Bill Kinnersley...
• The usefulness of a meeting is inversely proportional to its attendance.
• The legibility of a copy is inversely proportional to its importance.