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| #3981 |   | Fifth Law of Applied Terror: 	If you are given an open-book exam, you will forget your book.
  Corollary: 	If you are given a take-home exam, you will forget where you live.
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| #3982 |   | Fifth Law of Procrastination: 	Procrastination avoids boredom; one never has the feeling that 	there is nothing important to do.
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| #3983 |   | File cabinet: 	A four drawer, manually activated trash compactor.
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| #3984 |   | filibuster, n.: 	Throwing your wait around.
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| #3985 |   | Finagle's Creed: 	Science is true.  Don't be misled by facts.
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| #3986 |   | Finagle's Eighth Law: 	If an experiment works, something has gone wrong.
  Finagle's Ninth Law: 	No matter what results are expected, someone is always willing to 	fake it.
  Finagle's Tenth Law: 	No matter what the result someone is always eager to misinterpret it.
  Finagle's Eleventh Law: 	No matter what occurs, someone believes it happened according to 	his pet theory.
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| #3987 |   | Finagle's First Law: 	If an experiment works, something has gone wrong.
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| #3988 |   | Finagle's First Law: 	To study a subject best, understand it thoroughly before you start.
  Finagle's Second Law: 	Always keep a record of data -- it indicates you've been working.
  Finagle's Fourth Law: 	Once a job is fouled up, anything done to improve it only makes 	it worse.
  Finagle's Fifth Law: 	Always draw your curves, then plot your readings.
  Finagle's Sixth Law: 	Don't believe in miracles -- rely on them.
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| #3989 |   | Finagle's Second Law: 	No matter what the anticipated result, there will always be 	someone eager to (a) misinterpret it, (b) fake it, or (c) believe it 	happened according to his own pet theory.
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| #3990 |   | Finagle's Seventh Law: 	The perversity of the universe tends toward a maximum.
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