Book Title: Why the toast always lands butter side down
Author: Richard Robinson
Year written/published: 2005
Book Source: Google Books, Library
Summary: The Science of Murphy’s Law… a comic humorous book!
Some extracts:

Some really hilarious comic statements… and some are really food for thought as well!

• The longer you look at the page, more words don’t go in
• Each solution opens door to a more difficult problem
• When you ands are tied your nose itches
• You think of 10 important things to remember just as you are falling asleep
• Crossword clues pop put in the loo
• In youth the days are short and the years are long; in old age the years are short and the days are long
• A watched pot never boils
• short cuts are the longest routes
• Getting there takes longer than getting back
• The last minute of the match lasts an hour
• The moon shrinks in photos
• Floor boards squeal loudest when you need to be quietest
• Once you hear a new word you keep hearing it
• A heavy, ugly useless thing has sat in the dark corner of a cabinet for 20 years. The day after you throw it away, you need it urgently.
• People neither mean what they say and say what they mean
• a rich man’s joke is always funny
• any guy who is popular is bound to be disliked
• History is a version of past events that people have decided to agree on
• Any tool when dropped, will roll into the least accessible corner of the room. On the way to the corner, any dropped tool will first strike your toes
• You cannot stop the love affair between pasta sauce and a white shirt

some funny office rules!
• never walk around the company offices without a piece of paper in your hand
• never be the first to yawn
• never conduct negotiations before 10am and after 4pm
• always let the phone ring 3 times before you answer
• keep a lookout for some good news to be the bearer of it
• be out of the building when bad news arrives
• make sure you are seen with important people