The Murphy’s Law
There are things,
out of this world,
we don’t want to see,
but they kept coming
back as if they have
a mind of their own.
The Murphy’s law states:
“whatever is going to happen
is going to happen.”
Perhaps, in order to
avoid them, we should
learn how to predict them.
However, that way we most
probably would fall into
the pitfall of mysticism,
the viscous whirlpool, and
end up losing the power
of free will to fly in the sky
of rational thinking. So
just be prepared, take it easy
and handle with calm.
Life is the way it is,
all we can do is to make
the best out of it.
2005-07-06
posted by Mario Li （老哈） at July 07, 2005
2 Comments:
Murphy was an old Irishman who liked to eat a thick slice of buttered toast each day for his breakfast. One day, as he crossed to the table, he tripped over his old slippers, and the toast slipped from the plate... and landed ON A CLEAN PART of the FLOOR, BUTTERED SIDE UP! Something was very wrong here - surely this had never happened ever to anyone in recorded history: everyone knows that toast always falls buttered side down, on a carpet, covered in dog's hairs.
So Murphy immediately wrote a letter to Dublin University where the whole business was considered by professors of History, Philosophy, Physics, Nutrition, Theology and just about every other subject. They set up committees, sub committees and working parties. Academic papers were written and Doctorates awarded. But no one had an answer: why had Murphy's toast fallen buttered side up? Surely it was impossible.
Eventually, a brilliant young philosopher called Augustus Sodd came up with an answer which stunned the world:
Murphy, the stupid old fool, had buttered his toast on the wrong side!
Thanks!
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