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Geek Culture / Laws of the Natural Universe

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Phaelax
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Posted: 1st Apr 2006 23:18
LAWS OF THE NATURAL UNIVERSE

Law of Mechanical Repair:
After your hands become coated with grease, your nose will begin to itch or you'll have to pee.

Law of the Workshop:
Any tool, when dropped, will roll to the least accessible corner.

Law of Probability:
The probability of being watched is directly proportional to the stupidity of your act.

Law of the Telephone:
If you dial a wrong number, you never get a busy signal.

Law of the Alibi:
If you tell the boss you were late for work because you had a flat tire, the very next morning you will have a flat tire.

Variation Law:
If you change lines (or traffic lanes), the one you were in will start to move faster than the one you are in now (works every time).

Law of the Bath:
When the body is fully immersed in water, the telephone rings.

Law of Close Encounters:
The probability of meeting someone you know increases when you are with someone you don't want to be seen with

Law of the Result:
When you try to prove to someone that a machine won't work, it will.

Law of Biomechanics:
The severity of the itch is inversely proportional to the reach.

Law of the Theatre:
At any event, the people whose seats are furthest from the aisle arrive last.

Law of Coffee:
As soon as you sit down to a cup of hot coffee, your boss will ask you to do something which will last until the coffee is cold.

Murphy's Law of Lockers:
If there are only two people in a locker room, they will have adjacent lockers.

Law of Rugs/Carpets:
The chances of an open-faced jelly sandwich landing face down on a floor covering are directly correlated to the newness and cost of the carpet/rug.

Law of Location:
No matter where you go, there you are.

Law of Logical Argument:
Anything is possible if you don't know what you are talking about.

Brown's Law:
If the shoe fits, it's ugly.

Oliver's Law:
A closed mouth gathers no feet.

Wilson's Law:
As soon as you find a product that you really like, they will stop making it.


gbuilder
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Posted: 2nd Apr 2006 12:40
Yea, you have to laugh..

gbuilder.

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Nicholas Thompson
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Posted: 2nd Apr 2006 13:29
Jess T
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Posted: 2nd Apr 2006 16:39
lol, nice

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Sid Sinister
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Posted: 2nd Apr 2006 16:55
Here's another one to add:

Law of Searching

Whenever you go to get something you know is there you can't find it.

Happens to the best of us!
Megaton Cat
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Posted: 2nd Apr 2006 17:23
Quote: "After your hands become coated with grease, your nose will begin to itch or you'll have to pee. "


Only one of those tasks requires the use of hands.


It's like a Megaton Cat radar, 24 hours a day.
Tinkergirl
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Posted: 2nd Apr 2006 17:45
Quote: "
Law of Location:
No matter where you go, there you are. "


My favourite.

Also, a Glasweigian Bus Conductors phrase: "Come oan, get aff!"
Cash Curtis II
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Posted: 2nd Apr 2006 17:46 Edited at: 2nd Apr 2006 17:48
@Megaton:
Quote: "Only one of those tasks requires the use of hands. "

Speak for yourself. That's a two handed lift for me...

Tinkergirl! You posted just in time to see me acting like a complete jerk. You've been missing for a bit. Good to see you.

Saikoro
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Posted: 2nd Apr 2006 18:01
Quote: "Law of Mechanical Repair:
After your hands become coated with grease, your nose will begin to itch or you'll have to pee.

Law of the Workshop:
Any tool, when dropped, will roll to the least accessible corner. "


Anyone who has worked on their car in a busy garage knows just how true these two are.

@Cash - I laughed a while at that. Good one.

And the meek shall inherit the Earth...
soapyfish
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Posted: 2nd Apr 2006 20:26
*chuckle*

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DB newbie
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Posted: 3rd Apr 2006 01:30
very true.

i have a law

Murphy's law
if it can happen it will happen.

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jasonhtml
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Posted: 3rd Apr 2006 01:41
lol, funny

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Les Horribres
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Posted: 3rd Apr 2006 01:53
Crazy.

Law of Stupidity
The more educated your audiance, the stupider you sound.
Similarly, the more educated the speaker, the stupider he/she believes he/she sounds.
Yet overriding them all is as a person increasingly becomes more likely to be merranvo, the chance that he sounds stupid is equivalant to E=MC^2 where M is merranvoness, C is quotent of 0/0 and E is Emergent Stupidity.

Have A Very Stupid Day.

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Zotoaster
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Posted: 3rd Apr 2006 02:38
Law of rain
A bit obivous eh? It always rains when you forget you're jacket/umbrella...

Mattman
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Posted: 3rd Apr 2006 05:15
Law of everything

Inconvienient Events occur during Inconvienient Times

Why make sense when you could make brownies?
TKF15H
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Posted: 3rd Apr 2006 05:44
Cole's Law: Thinly sliced cabbage.
Murphy's Law: evarithnk tht ken go rong vil.

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Nicholas Thompson
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Posted: 3rd Apr 2006 22:31
Quote: "Cole's Law: Thinly sliced cabbage."


Huh?!

Flindiana Jones
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Posted: 3rd Apr 2006 22:38
@ Nicholas Thompson: It's like Coleslaw, a picnic dish consisting of thinly sliced cabbage in a salad dressing like sauce.

David R
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Posted: 3rd Apr 2006 23:21 Edited at: 3rd Apr 2006 23:22
Charles' law
The volume of an ideal gas at constant pressure is proportional to the thermodynamic temperature of that gas. (Don't ask...)

Quote: "Let's think the unthinkable, let's do the undoable, let's prepare to grapple with the ineffable itself, and see if we may not eff it after all."
re faze
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Posted: 4th Apr 2006 00:57
Quote: "As soon as you find a product that you really like, they will stop making it"

habernaro wings. the second i found them, boom! they dissappear from store shelves. along with that red maries dressing.

Quote: "Speak for yourself. That's a two handed lift for me... "

wow you must have some schnozz

Milkman
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Posted: 4th Apr 2006 01:06
The law of searching is very true, but I would word it like this:

Law of Searching
Whenever you need something you cannot find it, but when of no use it always turns up.


indi
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Posted: 4th Apr 2006 10:04
Law of Darkbasic Forums

Expect to get an answer, end up with a flame war, which has nothing to do with your original question. eventually placing you back to square one.


If no-one gives your an answer to a question you have asked, consider:- Is your question clear.- Did you ask nicely.- Are you showing any effort to solve the problem yourself 
Tinkergirl
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Posted: 4th Apr 2006 11:36
Quote: " Tinkergirl! You posted just in time to see me acting like a complete jerk. You've been missing for a bit. Good to see you."


Oh, I'm almost always around, reading I just don't post unless I have something to add to the discussion. But I read most threads.
Les Horribres
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Posted: 5th Apr 2006 00:34 Edited at: 5th Apr 2006 00:34
Law of Fixed Order
In all mathematical equations the concept of a truely random sequence is impossible to produce. Thus, in a world driven on mathematics, all events are controled by unseen cercumstances. Because you never know when these cercumstances will occur, or what they will occur as, you need concern yourself with everything and anything to prevent inconvient events.

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