Timeline for Term or phrase describing action occuring when not watching
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| Jan 29, 2014 at 11:37 | comment | added | WS2 | @AJMansfield I'm afraid you will never shift us from Sod's Law, it is part of our national liturgy! | |
| Jan 29, 2014 at 5:33 | comment | added | le-doude | @Jim +1 for the worst pun on this thread ... congratulations. | |
| Jan 29, 2014 at 3:13 | comment | added | Jim | I, personally, prefer Cole's Law | |
| Jan 29, 2014 at 1:48 | comment | added | AJMansfield | @FumbleFingers WS2 what you are both thinking of is actually Finagle's Law. | |
| Jan 28, 2014 at 21:28 | comment | added | FumbleFingers | @WS2: Indeed - but so far as I'm concerned, Sod's Law is the British equivalent of Murphy's Law. Wikipedia claims that the latter is a subset of the former, but I think that's just tosh - it's just that Americans like the Irish connotations of Murphy's Law more (plus they don't use sod so much in other contexts). | |
| Jan 28, 2014 at 21:09 | comment | added | WS2 | @FumbleFingers Sounds a bit more like Sod's law to me. | |
| Jan 28, 2014 at 20:57 | comment | added | FumbleFingers | I'd say Murphy's Law means anything that could feasibly go wrong will definitely occur, whereas OP's context is something that's definitely known to happen out in the field, but doesn't manifest in a controlled environment. +1 for Heisenbug though - not previously known to me, but I sure could have used that term many times in the past! | |
| Jan 28, 2014 at 20:56 | vote | accept | chonerman | ||
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| Jan 28, 2014 at 20:55 | vote | accept | chonerman | ||
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| Jan 28, 2014 at 20:35 | history | answered | RegDwigнt | CC BY-SA 3.0 |