Saturday, April 23, 2022

STRONG'S LAW

"A good legend will kill probability any day of the week."

-W.F. Strong, Professor, University of Texas- Rio Grande Valley

https://www.texasstandard.org/stories/jim-bowie-the-original-influencer/

Saturday, April 16, 2022

GOTTFRIED'S LAW

"If some terrible thing happens, comedy is not going to kill tragedy, but it will get it to lose its grip for a while."- comedian Gilbert Gottfried (1955- 2022) 

 (quoted in THE HISTORY OF COMEDY, CNN documentary, July 2017)

Sunday, April 10, 2022

NOAKES'S LAW OF CINEMATIC VENTILATION

"Ventilation ducts in movies always go to exactly where you need to be and never have any dampers."

- Professor Cath Noakes, https://twitter.com/CathNoakes/status/1474728866740686849

Tuesday, April 5, 2022

GOTTLIEB'S SECOND LAW AFTER ALBRITTON

"They don't give out (the championship) trophies at halftime."

-Popularized by sports talk radio host Doug Gottlieb in 2022, in regards to the University of Kansas's record-breaking comeback in the second half of the NCAA Division I men's basketball championship; appeared in 2011 as a Tweet by Karen Albritton regarding the University of North Carolina Tar Heels. Ironically, it was North Carolina that Kansas defeated in the 2022 championship. Albritton's tweet appeared to be lamenting North Carolina's loss to Duke University in the 2011 Atlantic Coast Conference basketball tournament. North Carolina beat Duke in the 2022 "Final Four" to rise to the championship game against Kansas.  

https://twitter.com/kalbritton/status/35532549228990464