Posted by
JP on Saturday, April 05, 2008 11:35:50 AM
new @ exilestreet
by Steve
Finefrock - Hollywood Forum [scriptwriter]
Gold
is where you find it, even if thirty years ago. A little tome of
“Murphy’s Laws” cousins was published thirty years ago as “The Official
Rules” – followed by its sequel of additions triggered by the first
book, “The Official Explanations,” both by Paul Dickson [whose latest
regards the history of the space program]. As a Senior Fellow of the
Murphy Center for the Codification of Human and Organizations Law, I
give you a sampling from the first issue. The second book has my
additions, and maybe an extract from there will come at a later time.
But here’s a sampler, many perhaps worthy of your own enthusiastic
distribution on the net – with a few pithy rejoinders, of course:
David Broder’s Law:
Anybody that wants the presidency so much that he’ll spend two years
organizing and campaigning for it is not to be trusted with the office.
– WaPo, July 19,1973 [changed his mine regarding Fred Thompson] [more]