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Originally Posted by Lady Blue
I'm often in another dimension, but I'm in this one for now. Nice to meet you too.
Not sure if you're being facetious about Murphy or not, so in case you're serious to any degree . . .
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murphy%27s_law
and if you ARE joking, then . . . 
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Second option.
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I think
Littlewood's Law may be more useful than Murphy's.
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Littlewood's Law states that individuals can expect a "miracle" to happen to them at the rate of about one per month.
Littlewood defines a miracle as an exceptional event of special significance occurring at a frequency of one in a million. He assumes that during the hours in which a human is awake and alert, a human will experience one event per second, which may either be exceptional or unexceptional (for instance, seeing the computer screen, the keyboard, the mouse, the article, etc.). Additionally, Littlewood supposes that a human is alert for about eight hours per day.
As a result, a human will, in 35 days, have experienced, under these suppositions, 1,008,000 events. Accepting this definition of a miracle, one can be expected to observe one miraculous occurrence within the passing of every 35 consecutive days – and therefore, according to this reasoning, seemingly miraculous events are actually commonplace.
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