In article , JackD wrote:

"tnfkajs" wrote in message
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"Thomas Mitchell" wrote in message
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No, I meant the other Murphy brother who's law states "Anything needed
will be missing until the exact moment that the thing is no longer
needed."

The Murphy's are a *large* family!

Perhaps you are not aware that the "everything ... will go wrong" quotation
is actually from Mrs. Murphy (Murphy's Mom) and is derived from her research
on contraceptives.


FACT: There _really_ was a Murphy. Edward A. Murphy. He was a Q.C. engineer
for McDonald Douglas. Assigned to the manned rocket-sled (known as the 'lead
sled') acceleration experiments done at Boneville Salt Flats.

Came one day when Colonel Paul Stapp climbed on the sled to go for ride,
trying for a "world record" for the number of "G's" for an unprotected man.
And off he went. _Felt_ like a record run to him. Got off, and asked the
techs "How many G's?" They replied: "Zero."

Ed Murphy was on the next flight to Bonneville from St. Louis. Upon
investigation, he found that a new set of accellerometers had been installed
on the sled. That they would fit, in either of two orientations. And that
they _had_ been installed *BACKWARDS*.

His actual words: "If there is a way that a thing can be done wrong, sooner
or later it _will_ be done wrong." (*very* valid, from a QC perspective)

However, at a press conference following, Col. Stapp _mis-quoted_ him as:
"whatever _can_ go wrong, *will* go wrong." and the rest is, as they say,
'history'.