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• Murphy's Second Law for Wives: The snapshots you take of your husband are always more flattering than the ones he takes of you.
• HAKMEM /hak'mem/ n. MIT AI Memo 239 (February 1972).
  A legendary collection of neat mathematical and programming hacks contributed by many people at MIT and elsewhere....
• Murphy's Third Law for Wives: Whatever arrangement you make for the division of household duties, your husband's job will be easier.
• Five milliseconds after beginning to chew a mouthful of food, the waiter will arrive and ask if it tastes OK.
  He will be unable to interpret hasty nods of the head, thumbs-up gestures, or words from your spouse, and will wait, staring at you like a stunned ox, until you have chewed, swallowed, and allayed his fears yourself...
• A man goes into a bar and begins to tell a Polish joke.
  The man sitting next to him, a big hulking powerhouse, turns and says menacingly, "*I'm* Polish....
• Homer: [gasps] You mean I get five percent off on everything in the store just because I look like -- I mean, just because I _am_ Krusty the Klown?
  Apu: How could I charge full price to the man whose lust for filthy magazines kept me in business during that first shaky year?...
• All major bugs in a software project will turn up five minutes before it is due.
  -- Murphy's Eleventh Law of Programming...
• It is true that if your paperboy throws your paper into the bushes for five straight days it can be explained by Newton's Law of Gravity.
  But it takes Murphy's law to explain why it is happening to you....