[time-nuts] A day gone awry...
Mark C. Stephens
marks at non-stop.com.au
Thu Sep 12 18:43:02 EDT 2013
I have discovered a possible offshoot of "The Conservation of Bustedness"
It's "the more you clean up the less can you find"
):
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From: time-nuts-bounces at febo.com [mailto:time-nuts-bounces at febo.com] On Behalf Of Don Latham
Sent: Friday, 13 September 2013 8:21 AM
To: Discussion of precise time and frequency measurement
Subject: Re: [time-nuts] A day gone awry...
Actually, another expression of McManus' sequential vortex, best expressed by the folksong "the bucket's got a hole in it". All these are corollaries to Murphy's Law of Universal Bustedness.
Don
Magnus Danielson
> On 09/09/2013 11:31 PM, Ed Palmer wrote:
>> It looks like "The Conservation of Bustedness" came from Usenet.
>>
>> http://rec.crafts.metalworking.narkive.com/66UwVxf4/conservation-of-b
>> ustedness
>>
>>
>> But doesn't entropy mean that the amount of Bustedness in the
>> universe keeps increasing?
>>
>> Hell, I might as well quit. I can't win!
> Well, the trick is having it get the hell out of YOUR house. With
> enough persistence you can lower the bustiness in your lab as it moves
> to other random places. Things will go wrong in your lab every once in a while.
> Turns out that bustiness cloggs together, so you will have to push it
> away for a long time until it cloggs elsewhere and you push it away at
> higher rate than you receive it new. Also remember that Kilroy was here.
>
> Cheers,
> Magnus
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