I fought the law

[simont]

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…

Comments

[simont]

Perhaps 'I fought Clarke's Third Law, and I couldn't tell if it was cheating or not'...

[jack]

I fought Muphry's law and it one

[simont]

:-)

(In the pub I briefly considered 'I fought the Law of Quadratic Reciprocity, and it fought me too, except when both of us were congruent to 3 mod 4', but decided it was far too silly.)

[simont]

Ah, you've belatedly given me a thought!

I fought Benford's Law, and it one about 30% of the time.

[ptc24]

I fought the Law of Diminishing Returns and eventually gave up because after a while it didn't feel like I was getting anywhere.

[ewx]

I fought Betteridge's Law, and the answer was no.

[bugshaw]

I fought Moore's Law and it won again; it gets twice as powerful every two years.

[vyvyanx]

I fought Hubble's Law, but it kept getting away from me.
I fought Godwin's Law, but it called me a Nazi.
I fought Clarke's Law, but it was sufficiently advanced that winning was indistinguishable from losing.

[j4]

BADGER!

Also, so that this isn't just a completely gratuitous badger:

* I fought the first law of robotics, and it couldn't fight back.
* I tried to fight the second law of thermodynamics, but things got messy.

[simont]

Good to see that badger again :-)

I like your 2LoT one. Elsenet someone fought 2LoT "... but in the end I was just too disorganised".

Though now I'm thinking about this, an alternative has just occurred to me:

I fought the Second Law of Thermodynamics, but I'd far better not ha'.