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MURPHY'S LAW If anything can go wrong, it will. O'TOOLE'S COMMENTARY Murphy was an optimist. MURPHY'S FIRST COROLLARY Nothing is as easy as it looks.
Murphy's Law
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A study in New Zealand tested the tearing of knickers, and found that meaningful results are not easy to obtain if one examines only the fabric itself: “ Tearing of Knicker Fabrics ,” T.J. Dann, D.J. Carr, R.M.
Why being funny is no joke - Health News, Health & Wellbeing - Independent.co.uk
Most – but not all – are either depressive or suffer from personality disorders (such as febrile emotions, "me, me, me" narcissism or omnipotence). Of course that does not, in itself, explain why they are so funny – millions of people have those problems and do not invent Basil Fawlty or create Blackadder. Using pathology to explain art entails oversimplified reductionism of the most intellectually vulgar kind. But, having done in-depth TV interviews with seven leading comics and having met many others, I feel that it must be acknowledged that misery is a necessary condition for great humour in the vast majority of cases. Cleese once took me out to lunch in 1983.