What is murphy’s law? does it work? Vocabulary. Probability phrases

What is Murphy’s Law?
Does it work?

VOCABULARY
Do you know who was Murphy?
Was he a lucky guy?

In 1949 the US Force ran a series of tests to predict how human body behaves during air crash

Edward Murphy was the guy who constructed the safety harness for volunteers.
But he wasn’t the one who put them on

Safety harness on the victims was strapped backwards because it could be strapped backwards

Probability phrases:
VOCABULARY

Unlucky words
Unfortunate
Luckless
ill-fated/ill-stared
Wretched
Blighted
Jinxed (cursed)
Unseely (miserable) OE
Unsonsy (plain, unhandsome) Sct

To be all thumbs

How are the following pictures the subjects of Murphy’s Law?

VOCABULARY

Why does Murphy’s Law exist?

Has anything similar ever happened to you?

Do you know any other variations of the Murphy’s law?

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