{"id":392,"date":"2009-01-23T14:59:00","date_gmt":"2009-01-23T20:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.melrosetroop68.org\/blog\/?p=392"},"modified":"2010-02-21T20:18:48","modified_gmt":"2010-02-22T02:18:48","slug":"murphys-laws-of-camping","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.melrosetroop68.org\/blog\/?p=392","title":{"rendered":"Murphy’s Laws of Camping"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>We have all heard<\/span> of Murphy’s Law which states, “Anything that can go wrong will go wrong.” Mark W. at ScoutingManiac has recently blogged about a list of Murphy’s Laws of Camping which he found at the Boy Scout Trail website. You have got to read these. A few of them really are too true. Here are a few of the forty laws listed on the site:<\/p>\n

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  1. When reading the instructions of a pump-activated water filter, ‘hour’ should be substituted for ‘minute’ when reading the average quarts filtered per minute.<\/li>\n
  2. A backpack’s weight load migrates up and back the longer it is in motion.<\/li>\n
  3. All tree branches in a forest grow outward from their respective trunks at exactly the height of your nose. If you are male, tree branches will also grow at groin height.<\/li>\n
  4. Swiss Army Knife toothpicks and tweezers evaporate open contact with air.<\/li>\n
  5. Rain happens.<\/li>\n
  6. Waterproof clothing isn’t. (However, it is 100% effective at containing sweat).<\/li>\n
  7. Non-stick pans aren’t.<\/li>\n
  8. Waterproof matches aren’t.<\/li>\n
  9. One size fits all don’t.<\/li>\n
  10. Anything bug-proof isn’t.<\/li>\n
  11. A backpack’s weight is not affected by the amount of food eaten out of it.<\/li>\n
  12. The minimum temperature rating for any sleeping bag raises as the external temperature lowers.<\/li>\n
  13. Ropes holding bear bags stretch.<\/li>\n
  14. The loudness of an animal at night grows as the size of the animal shrinks.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    Links:
    http:\/\/www.boyscouttrail.com\/content\/joke\/murphys_laws_of_camping-1031.asp<\/a>
    http:\/\/scoutingmaniac.blogspot.com\/2009\/01\/humor-dose-1.htm<\/a>l<\/p>\n

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