Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site eosp1.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!allegra!princeton!eosp1!robison From: robison@eosp1.UUCP (Tobias D. Robison) Newsgroups: net.rumor,net.jokes.d,net.nlang,net.books Subject: Re: Murphy's Laws (Chisolm's laws?) Message-ID: <1235@eosp1.UUCP> Date: Tue, 6-Nov-84 08:14:33 EST Article-I.D.: eosp1.1235 Posted: Tue Nov 6 08:14:33 1984 Date-Received: Wed, 7-Nov-84 07:51:08 EST Organization: Exxon Office Systems, Princeton, NJ Lines: 33 Xref: princeton net.rumor:85 net.jokes.d:94 net.nlang:204 net.books:220 Summary: References: Sender: Reply-To: robison@eosp1.UUCP (Tobias D. Robison) Followup-To: Distribution: Organization: Exxon Office Systems, Princeton Keywords: A progress report on Murphy: Numerous people have sent me similar stories indicating that Murphy was a real person who said of a specific individual, something like "if there's a way to do it wrong, he'll find it." Apparently Murphy has been interviewed in a magazine within the last five years. Can anyone help me with a reference? Following the suggestion of: eosp1!{allegra, seismo}!rochester!stuart (Stu Friedberg) I will be looking in the Guide to Periodical Literature, last 1-5 yrs, especially 2-3 years ago, perhaps Time or Newsweek, or (another suggestion) an Engineering magazine. If people's recollections are accurate, I expect to find that Murphy predates Chisolm by about four years. Then again... (For those who missed my previous posting, Francis Chisolm wrote a piece between 1958 and 1961, reprinted in "A Stress Analysis of a Strapless Evening Gown", that makes it sound as if he is the discoverer of most of "Murphy's laws". I am trying to trace the origins of Murphy.) - Toby Robison allegra!eosp1!robison or: decvax!ittvax!eosp1!robison alternate: princeton!eosp1!robison