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• Washing machines only break down during the wash cycle. -- Yeager's Law
• Second Law of Office Murphology: Office machines that function perfectly during normal business hours will break down when you return at night to use them for personal business.
• Murphy's Law of the Office: Copying machines mangle only important documents.
  Corollary: If a machine goes wild and runs off 180 copies, it will do so only when you are copying a personal letter....
• First Corollary of Taber's Second Law: Machines that piss people off get murdered.
  -- Pat Tabe...
• Machines that piss people off get murdered. -- First Corollary of Taber's Second Law -- Pat Tabe
• cycle drought n. A scarcity of cycles. It may be due to a cycle crunch, but it could also occur because part of the computer is temporarily not working, leaving fewer cycles to go around.
  The high moby is down, so we're running with only half the usual amount of memory....
• cycle drought: n. A scarcity of cycles. It may be due to a {cycle crunch}, but it could also occur because part of the computer is temporarily not working, leaving fewer cycles to go around.
  "The {high moby} is {down}, so we're running with only half the usual amount of memory....
• This computer is subject to breakdowns during periods of critical need.