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McGee’s Third Law (and Order)

I formulated “McGee’s First Law” in college:

Everything is more complicated than it at first appears to be, even when McGee’s First Law is taken into account

Startlingly, someone else (presumably Mr. or Mrs. McGee) also formulated a “McGee’s First Law”:

It’s amazing how long it takes to complete something you’re not working on

I’m not sure which I like better, but one of us has to reindex.

Setting that aside for a moment, I’m fairly confident, after the sixth or seventh spontaneous occurrence, that I have “McGee’s Third Law”:

If I see an actor in a role, I don’t recognize him, and he creeps me the fuck out, I’ve seen him play a villain on Law & Order: Criminal Intent

(I will avoid officially enumerating a new law I just discovered a couple paragraphs ago, namely, “There are infinitely more ways to misspell occurrence than to spell it correctly.”)



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  1. Joshua (Site Owner) Says:

    The Laws

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