Whistler’s Law: You never know who is right, but you always know who is in charge.

Whitehead’s Law: The obvious answer is always overlooked.

William’s Law: There is no mechanical problem so difficult that it cannot be solved by brute strength and ignorance.

Wood’s Axiom: As soon as a still-to-be-finished computer task becomes a life-or-death situation, the power fails.

Woodward’s Law: A theory is better than its explanation.

Zall’s Laws: First Law – Anytime you get a mouthful of hot soup, the next thing you do will be wrong. Second Law – How long a minute is, depends on which side of the bathroom door you’re on.

Zymurgy’s First Law Of Evolving System Dynamics Once you open a can of worms, the only way to recan them is to use a larger can.

You’ve ever torn something just trying to turn off the alarm clock.

People at work only refer to you by saying “Hey fatso!”

You’ve thrown your back out by carrying a bag of groceries.

Random strangers come up, poke you in the stomach and expect you to giggle.

Your record is 34 Pushups and you could have done more if the Ice Cream Man would have taken plastic.

You get the Christmas gift of Jigglin’ To The Oldies.

You cramp up while watching the New York City Marathon.

Watching Rocky 5 is your idea of a workout video.

The sales clerk nicely but firmly pulls you away from the jeans rack and whispers “Its Sansabelt Time, Tubby”

A blind man was describing his favorite sport, parachuting. When asked how this was accomplished, he said that things were all done for him: “I am placed in the door with my seeing eye dog and told when to jump. My hand is placed on my release ring for me and out I go with the dog.”

“But how do you know when you are going to land?” he was asked. “I have a very keen sense of smell, and I can smell the trees and grass when I am 300 feet from the ground” he answered.

“But how do you know when to lift your legs for the final arrival on the ground?” he was again asked. He quickly answered: “Oh, the dog’s leash goes slack.”

A man woke up in a hospital bed and called for his doctor. He asked, “Give it to me straight. How long have I got?” The physician replied that he doubted that the man would survive the night.

The man then said, “Call for my lawyer.” When the lawyer arrived, the man asked for his physician to stand on one side of the bed, while the lawyer stood on the other. The man then laid back and closed his eyes. When he remained silent for several minutes, the physician asked what he had in mind. The man replied “Jesus died with a thief on either side. I just thought I’d check out the same way.”

Seisline prayer: O Lord, grant that we may always be right, for thou knowest we will never change our minds.

Sanity and insanity overlap a fine gray line.

Say no, then negotiate.

Science is always simple and always profound. It is only the half-truths that are dangerous.

Science is not a sacred cow. Science is a horse. Don’t worship it. Feed it.

Security depends not so much upon how much you have as upon how much you can do without.

Self-blame constitutes an exquisite form of self-praise. No matter how severe the adjectives, the conversation remains fixed on oneself. For the last 40 years, all the best people have complained of neurotic disorders. – Lewis Lapham, in “Money and Class in America” (1988)

Self starters…will not.

Some circumstantial evidence is very strong, as when you find a trout in the milk.

Some come to the fountain of knowledge to drink, some prefer to just gargle.