• Law of Mechanical Repair – After your hands become coated with grease, your nose will begin to itch & you’ll have to use the restroom.
• Law of Gravity – Any tool, nut, bolt, screw, when dropped, will roll to the least accessible corner.
• Law of Probability – The probability of being watched is directly proportional to the stupidity of your act.
• Law of Random Numbers – If you dial a wrong number, you never get a busy signal & someone always answers.
• Law of the Alibi – If you tell the boss you were late for work because you had a flat tire, the very next morning you will have a flat tire.
• Variation Law – If you change lines (or traffic lanes), the one you were in will always move faster than the one you are in now (works every time).
• Law of the Bath – When the body becomes fully immersed in water, the telephone will ring.
• Law of Close Encounters – The probability of meeting someone you know increases dramatically when you are with someone you don’t want to be seen with.
• Law of the Result – When you try to prove to someone that a machine won’t work, it will.
• Law of Bio-Mechanics – The severity of the itch is inversely proportional to the reach.
• Law of the Theater & Hockey Arena – At any event, the people whose seats are furthest from the aisle, always arrive last. They are the ones who will leave their seats several times to go for food, beer, or the toilet & who leave early before the end of the performance or the game is over. The folks in the aisle seats come early, never move once, have long gangly legs or big bellies & stay to the bitter end of the performance. The aisle people also are very surly folk.
• The Coffee Law – As soon as you sit down to a cup of hot coffee, you’ll be asked to do something that will last until the coffee is cold.
• Murphys Law of Lockers – If there are only 2 people in a locker room, they will have adjacent lockers.
• Law of Physical Surfaces – The chances of an open-faced jelly sandwich landing face down on a floor, are directly correlated to the newness & cost of the carpet or rug.
• Law of Logical Argument – Anything is possible if you don’t know what you are talking about.
• Brown’s Law of Physical Appearance – If the clothes fit, they’re ugly.
• Oliver’s Law of Public Speaking – A closed mouth gathers no feet.
• Wilson’s Law of Commercial Marketing Strategy – As soon as you find a product that you really like, they will stop making it.
• Doctors’ Law – If you don’t feel well, make an appointment to go to the doctor, by the time you get there you’ll feel better.. But don’t make an appointment, and you’ll stay sick.

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An optical illusion is characterized by perceived images that differ from objective reality and have confounded and delighted humans for thousands of years. The information gathered by the eye is processed in the brain in a way that doesn’t tally with a physical measurement of the stimulus source.

There are thousands to entertain such as these 88 Visual Phenomena & Optical Illusions, 203 Pages of all kinds of images, 3D Stereograms or eyetricks, a site called Stereogram Builder where you can create your own and Optical Illusions for Kids.

The enjoyable struggle to understand optical illusions is best summed up by the Greek philosopher and dramatist Epicharmus: “The mind sees and the mind hears. The rest is blind and deaf.”

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