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• A horizontal surface will soon be piled up. -- Corollary to Murphy's Law
• Minton's Law of Painting: Any paint, regardless of quality or composition, will adhere permanently to any surface, prepared or otherwise, if applied accidentally.
• Berth: Any horizontal surface whose total area does not exceed one half of the surface area of an average person at re
  onto which at least one liter of some liquid seeps during any 12-hour period, and above which there are not less than 10 kilograms of improperly secured objects....
• Geometry: what the acorn said after it grew up.
• I do not know how it is with you, but for myself I generally give up at the outset.
  The simplest problems which come up from day to day seem to me quite unanswerable as soon as I try to get below the surface....
• A block grant is a solid mass of money surrounded on all sides by governors.
  -- Baker's First Law of Federal Geometry...
• Baker's First Law of Federal Geometry: A block grant is a solid mass of money surrounded on all sides by governors.