FETRIDGE’S LAW:
Important things that are supposed to happen do not happen, especially when people are looking. This little known law was named by and for Claude Fetridge, an engineer working for NBC Radio, who in 1936 came up with the idea of a live broadcast to report on the departure of the swallows from their roost at Mission San Juan Capistrano on St. John’s Day, October 23. Fetridge’s equipment-laden crew arrived to find that the swallows had left a day early. This law was all but forgotten until H. Allen Smith wrote of it in a 1963 essay in an attempt to explain why a toothache that strikes suddenly on Sunday on the golf course disappears while walking up the stairs to the dentist’s office on Monday. BISHOP’S REVISION: When you count on Murphy’s Law…it doesn’t work. LAW OF MURPHY’S LAW’S SELF-APPLICATION: If Murphy’s Law can go wrong, it will and it will do so exactly when you want to show its accuracy.…
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