text: what is brown's law?   i think purplegirl is confusing brown's law with brownean motion.  brown's law appears to be one of the many correlates to murphy's law -- if anything can go wrong, it will.  i found a reference for brown's law here:  http://www.singforall.com/murphy.htm  brown's law: if the shoe fits, it's really ugly.  here are some other variants i found: (jerry) brown's law:  too often i find that the volume of paper expands to fill the available briefcases.  (sam) brown's law:  never offend people with style when you can offend them with substance.  (tony) brown's law of business success:  our customer's paperwork is profit. our own paperwork is loss.  (from http://www.titeu.com/murphy/mlb.shtml)