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Murphy's Law simply suggests that: "Anything that can go wrong will go wrong". The Law's namesake was Capt. Ed Murphy, a development engineer from Wright Field Aircraft Lab. Frustrated with a strap transducer which was malfunctioning due to an error in wiring the strain gage bridges caused him to remark - "If there is any way to do it wrong, he will" - referring to the technician who had wired the bridges at the Lab. I assigned Murphy's Law to the statement and the associated variations (Wikipedia). http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k2T5xYlsw-c Tell that to macho man Charles Bronson: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FkeyKGbN86k Doris Day a beauty in her time once sung to us Que Sera Sera -which means Whatever Will Be Will be. If anything that can go wrong will go wrong then whatever will be will be. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yVuEC3r7a-o Murphy's Law Firstly, let me see a show of hands who among you subscribe to Murphy's Law - ...