> > > > 5. Murphy's Law wasn't named after Murphy. It was named after another
> > > > Irishman with the same name.
> > >
> > > Actually, it was named after an American with the same name, but the point still holds.
> >
> > Oh? I always thought it was named after a different American with the same name as the Irishman but not the same name as that first American.
>
> No, no. I've just looked this up. It was named after a Taiwanese guy called Law. Nobody knows where the "Murphy" part came from.
>
> Brunnen-G

But the most important part is that Murphy never said "anything that can go wrong, will go wrong" [with or without the comma, as you prefer]. His real quote, or so I read, was about three paragraphs to that extent. Don't know when it was condensed.

Chr"keeper of some of the useless information-- you should hear my speech on Benjamin West"is