| Murphy's Law |
Yphrum's Law |
Cnidarian (Jellyfish & Box Jelly) Law |
| Dropped toast lands butter side down |
Dropped toast lands on a plate jelly side up |
Jellyfish have crystal bearing rhopalia to sense up from
down |
| Anything that can go wrong will |
Anything that can go wrong has been ameliorated with
safety measures |
Turritopsis dohrnii, the "immortal jellyfish", can revert
back to a polyp for a second chance at life |
| The more it itches, the harder it is to scratch |
A little lotion and the itch is gone |
The Australian box [comb] jellyfish sting is toxic,
painful, and sometimes fatal, but can be soothed with the
application of vinegar (bottled at stations along Oz
beaches) |
| Washing your car makes it rain |
Washing your car makes it rain complements |
A jellyfish bloom is followed by a jellyfish rain which
feeds bacteria, resulting in local hypoxia |
| The price only comes out even when you've change in your
pocket |
They take credit cards |
You can use your credit card to dine on fat-free jellyfish
in Korea, Japan and China (the biggest buyers in a world
market that exceeds $750,000,000 a year) |
| The line you get in is always the slowest |
"I can help you over here" |
Jellyfish control their swim direction by paddling harder
on one side |
| Lost items always show up right after buying a replacement |
The only thing you've ever lost is weight! |
Lion's Mane jellyfish can weigh up to 500 pounds (with 100
foot long stinging tentacles) |
| The legibility of a copy is inversely proportional to its
importance |
We've gone paperless |
Many jellyfish in the class Hydrozoa, such as the
hydromedusa Aglantha digitale, are completely transparent |
| Your nose always itches when you've grease on your hands |
You've an affordable, honest and expert mechanic |
Robojelly scientists are striving to make it run on
hydrogen that it extracts from seawater |
| The heavier an item dropped, the likelier it will land on
your toes |
You've steel toed shoes |
There are some marshes with Upside down jellies where
going barefoot is discouraged due to cassiosomes (exuded
mucus balls filled with stingers)
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| There's always someone watching when you do something
stupid |
You do the right thing when no one is watching |
Tripedalia box jellies have four sets of boxcar arranged
eyes with the middle eyes having lenses and color receptors |
| When you dial a wrong number, it's never busy |
You have a smart phone with up to date contacts |
Kuragedo, the way of the jellyfish, involves bell flaps
that make jellies the most efficient of all swimmers |
| If you use a flat tire as an excuse for being late, the
next day you'll have a blow out |
Your boss doesn't care if you're late once in a while |
Jellyfish pump ions in and out of their mesoglea (bell
fluid) to control buoyancy |
