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Pastimes : The Non-Political Joke Thread

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To: Jagfan who wrote (804)2/13/2006 11:57:09 PM
From: Lady Lurksalot   of 1755
 
I figured you would get it. <g>


* Lerman's Law of Technology
- Any technical problem can be overcome given
enough time and money.
Corollary - You are never given enough time or money.

* Murphy's First Law for Wives
- If you ask your husband to pick up five items at
the store and then you add one more as an after
thought, he will forget two of the first five.

* Law of the Search
- The first place to look for any thing is the last
place you would expect to find it.
Corollary - It will not be the last place you expect to find it.

* Kauffman's Paradox of the Corporation
- The less important you are to the corporation, the more
your tardiness or absence is noticed.

* The Salary Axiom
- The pay raise is just large enough to increase your
taxes and just small enough to have no effect on your
take-home pay.

* Miller's Law of Insurance
- Insurance covers everything except what happens.

* First Law of Living
- As soon as you're doing what you wanted to be doing,
you want to be doing something else.
CAD's Corollary - As soon as you're doing who you wanted to be doing,
you want to be doing someone else.

* Weiner's Law of Libraries
- There are no answers, only cross-references.

* Isaac's Strange Rule of Staleness
- Any food that starts out hard will soften when stale.
Any food that starts out soft will harden when stale.

* Kenny's Law of Auto Repair
- The part requiring the most consistent repair or replacement
will be housed in the most inaccessible location.

* Second Law of Business Meetings
- If there are two possible ways to spell a person's name,
you will pick the wrong one.
Corollary - If there is only one way to spell a name, you
will spell it wrong anyway.

* The Grocery Bag Law
- The candy bar you planned to eat on the way home from the
market is hidden at the bottom of the grocery bag.

* Yeager's Law
- Washing machines break down only during the wash cycle.
Corollary - All breakdowns occur on the plumbers' day off.

* Lampner's Law of Employment
- When leaving work late, you will go unnoticed.
When you leave work early, you will meet the boss
in the parking lot.

* Quile's Consultation Law
- The job that pays the most will be offered when there
is no time to deliver the services.

* Loftus's Law
- Some people manage by the book, even though they don't
know who wrote the book or even what book.

* Troutman's Fifth Programming Postulate
- If the input editor has been designed to reject all bad input,
an ingenious idiot will discover a method to get bad data past it.

* Lovka's Dilemma
- You never get away, you only get someplace else.


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