End of ADS-L Digest - 14 Dec 1995 to 15 Dec 1995

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There are 7 messages totalling 110 lines in this issue.



Topics of the day:



 1. Murphy's Law

 2. Showing tapes dubbed from TV

 3. American Tongues

 4. Fwd: Re: Murphy's Law

 5. AmerTongues

 6. lugen

 7. Yas, youse, y'all



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Date:  Sat, 16 Dec 1995 00:18:04 -0500

From:  "William H. Smith" <Wh5mith[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]AOL.COM>

Subject: Murphy's Law



Does anyone know the origin and the original version of Murphy's Law? I read

a review a

few years ago (I think it was Hugh Kenner's column in _Byte_ magazine) of a

book which gave the source, an Air force maintenance officer, Capt.

Patrick(?) Murphy, who

investigated the failure of a rocket sled and found that the seat had been

installed backwards. I did not look for the book, but that report is

consistent with my first

encounter with the Law, a poster in a Marine Corps aviation maintenance

office to the

effect of "If a part can be installed incorrectly, it will be." Does anyone

know the exact

source and original statement?

Bill Smith

Piedmont College