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From: brat@gitpyr.UUCP (Steven Goldberg)
Newsgroups: net.nlang
Subject: Re: Murphy's Laws
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Date: Tue, 13-Nov-84 11:03:17 EST
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Posted: Tue Nov 13 11:03:17 1984
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> 	... Our finest scholars, experts in the fields of linguistics and
>     folk history, have tried and failed to determine the origin of Murphy's
>     Law.  Who was I to argue with such a record?

What the heck is going on here? Can you imagine just how many people might
have come up with the exact same set of "laws" over the past couple of
centuries alone?  It's silly to try to figure out who originally said them
and why.  Granted, where the name "Murphy" came from is interesting, but
it's all tongue-in-cheek humor that anyone could have said after a hard day
at the office.
		Steven