I had an idea for a silly word game on the way to the pub.

I remembered the famous song lyric ‘I fought the law and the law won’, and I wondered: what law? If you fought some particular law, might it win in a thematically appropriate way?

For example:

• I fought the law of gravity, and it won by two falls.
• I fought the Law of Large Numbers, and it won … on balance … in the long run.
• I fought Newton's Third Law, and it fought back just as hard.
• I fought the Law of Unintended Consequences, and – BADGER!

I feel there are probably more good ones of these that the combined wisdom of the pub didn't think of…