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2. Finagle's law - Wikipedia

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   [4] [5] Similar to Finagle's law is the verbless phrase of the German novelist Friedrich Theodor Vischer: "die Tücke des Objekts" (the perfidy of inanimate objects). A related concept, the "Finagle factor", is an ad hoc multiplicative or additive term in an equation, which can be justified only by the fact that it gives more correct results ...

3. Sod's law - Wikipedia

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   Sod's law, a British culture axiom, states that "if something can go wrong, it will". The law sometimes has a corollary: that the misfortune will happen at "the worst possible time" (Finagle's law). The term is commonly used in the United Kingdom (while in many parts of North America the phrase "Murphy's law" is more popular). [1]

4. Murphy's law - Wikipedia

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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 ...

5. List of eponymous laws - Wikipedia

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   The law is named after SunPower Corporation founder Richard Swanson. Szemerényi's law, in Proto-Indo-European phonology: word-final clusters of vowels (V), resonants (R) and either *s or *h 2 are simplified by dropping the word-final fricative (*h 2 was phonetically itself probably a back fricative), with compensatory lengthening of

6. Talk:Finagle's law - Wikipedia

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   I believe murphy's, finagles and sods law should be merged into one article I agree. The article begins with the phrase: Finagle's corollary to Murphy's Law. Corollary is defined in Random House (dictionary.com) as: 1. Mathematics. a proposition that is incidentally proved in proving another proposition. 2.

7. List of Milo Murphy's Law episodes - Wikipedia

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   Milo Murphy's Law is an American animated television series from the creators of Phineas and Ferb, Dan Povenmire and Jeff "Swampy" Marsh, which premiered on October 3, 2016. The series revolves around the title character, Milo Murphy, who is a descendant of Edward A. Murphy Jr. , the namesake of Murphy's law , which states that anything that ...

8. Episode 16 (Twin Peaks) - Wikipedia

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   9th episode of the 2nd season of Twin Peaks "Episode 16" Twin Peaks episode Leland Palmer is comforted by Special Agent Dale Cooper as he dies. Episode no. Season 2 Episode 9 Directed by Tim Hunter Written by Mark Frost Harley Peyton Robert Engels Production code 2.009 Original air date December 1, 1990 (1990-12-01) Running time 47 minutes Guest appearances Miguel Ferrer as Special Agent ...

9. Johnny Carson - Wikipedia

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   Carson began his broadcasting career in 1950 at WOW-AM (now KXSP) and WOW-TV (now WOWT-TV) in Omaha, Nebraska. [14] He soon hosted a morning television program called The Squirrel's Nest. One of his routines involved interviewing pigeons on the roof of the local courthouse that would report on the political corruption they had seen. Carson ...