Murphys Law
by Arthur Bloch · first published 2003
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Many, many, many years ago I'd picked up a (then new) copy of Arthur Bloch's Murphys' Law and Other Reasons Things Go Wrong. With the "Wrong" printed upside-down, of course. At the time, I found it an amusing set of anecdotes and quips. As I've grown older, it's struck me that this might…
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