Well, since we “preparednessists” pretty much live with Murphy’s Law in the back of our minds (at least most of the time, anyway), I thought this might be interesting to some of you. This article outlines, in pretty good detail, the confusion behind the origins of Murphy’s Law.

http://www.improb.com/airchives/paperair/volume9/v9i5/murphy/murphy0.html
(This is an index page that links to the 4 pages of the actual article.)
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