Re: Just the facts
Chris, on host 198.70.210.131
Thursday, October 7, 1999, at 18:53:10
Re: Just the facts posted by Brunnen-G on Wednesday, October 6, 1999, at 13:37:21:
> > > > 5. Murphy's Law wasn't named after Murphy. It was named after another > > > > Irishman with the same name. > > > > > > Actually, it was named after an American with the same name, but the point still holds. > > > > Oh? I always thought it was named after a different American with the same name as the Irishman but not the same name as that first American. > > No, no. I've just looked this up. It was named after a Taiwanese guy called Law. Nobody knows where the "Murphy" part came from. > > Brunnen-G
But the most important part is that Murphy never said "anything that can go wrong, will go wrong" [with or without the comma, as you prefer]. His real quote, or so I read, was about three paragraphs to that extent. Don't know when it was condensed.
Chr"keeper of some of the useless information-- you should hear my speech on Benjamin West"is
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