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Murphy's law [a] is an adage or epigram that is typically stated as: "Anything that can go wrong will go wrong.".. Though similar statements and concepts have been made over the course of history, the law itself was coined by, and named after, American aerospace engineer Edward A. Murphy Jr.; its exact origins are debated, but it is generally agreed it originated from Murphy and his team ...
Print this story. From the 16th century to the 19th, scurvy killed around 2 million sailors, more than warfare, shipwrecks and syphilis combined. It was an ugly, smelly death, too, beginning with rattling teeth and ending with a body so rotted out from the inside that its victims could literally be startled to death by a loud noise.
Allan Lichtman, who predicted 9 of 10 elections, told USA TODAY he was taking time to assess why he was wrong. ... "I think she lost," his son said during the last 10 minutes of the show.
Everything You Know Is Wrong is the eighth comedy album by the Firesign Theatre.Released in October 1974 on Columbia Records, it satirizes UFO conspiracy theories and New Age paranormal beliefs such as Erich von Däniken's Chariots of the Gods and claimed psychic Uri Geller, which achieved wide public attention by that time.
It's the wrong war, in the wrong place at the wrong time. [10] Speaking on 60 Minutes, May 23, 2004, Zinni said, "The plan was wrong, it was the wrong war, the wrong place and the wrong time— with little or no planning." He stated that serious "derelictions of duty," "criminal negligence," and poor planning put U.S. forces in harm's way and ...
“She’s like, ‘You don’t want to love anyone, you’re just an a--hole.’ And she wasn’t wrong. It wasn’t the guy I was, it was the guy I wished I could be.”
Back in 1997, the global investment giant Morgan Stanley merged with brokerage firm Dean Witter Reynolds to become the largest securities company at the time. But the union proved challenging.
When you're wrong, you're wrong. But when you're right, you're extra-wrong. And if you're in between, it's still your fault. You just can't win. Suppose you're right on the facts in a content dispute, or right about Wikipedia policies and guidelines if it's a procedural issue or another editor is misbehaving. If you're so right, it's extra ...