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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 ...
Sod's law is a more extreme version of Murphy's law. While Murphy's law says that anything that can go wrong, will go wrong (eventually), Sod's law requires that it will always go wrong with the worst possible outcome or at the worst time.
Liskov substitution principle in computer science is a particular definition of a subtyping relation, called (strong) behavioral subtyping. Llinás's law: "A neuron of a given kind cannot be functionally replaced by one of another type even if their synaptic connectivity and the type of neurotransmitter outputs are identical."
Schmuck, or shmuck, is a pejorative term meaning one who is stupid or foolish, or an obnoxious, contemptible or detestable person. The word came into the English language from Yiddish (Yiddish: שמאָק, shmok), where it has similar pejorative meanings, but where its literal meaning is a vulgar term for a penis.
Wikifinagling (and the related term finagling) is a pejorative term which describes various questionable ways of trying to misuse or circumvent Wikipedia rules or procedures.
Even the humorous items in the list explain some type of relationship (i.e., prerequisite conditions and the outcome produced by those relationships). Cole's law has no prerequisite conditions, relationships, or outcomes from those conditions and relationships. It is a play on words and a definition of a food, thus is not a "law".
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. an immediate consequence or easily drawn conclusion. 3. a natural consequence or result.
A thesaurus (pl.: thesauri or thesauruses), sometimes called a synonym dictionary or dictionary of synonyms, is a reference work which arranges words by their meanings (or in simpler terms, a book where one can find different words with similar meanings to other words), [1] [2] sometimes as a hierarchy of broader and narrower terms, sometimes simply as lists of synonyms and antonyms.