Muphry’s Law

After he corrected their already correct usage of the word ‘pasty’ last week, Stephen Dubner of the Freakonomics blog recieved a special and edible gift from The Economist in his mailbox. [WaxyLinks]

And news to him and me, this situation is defined as Muphry’s Law.

Muphry’s law states that “if you write anything criticizing editing or proofreading, there will be a fault of some kind in what you have written.”

After being in the Upper Peninsula for a week earlier this month — where pasties are probably more popular than burgers — I don’t know that I will ever question their popularity.