Expenditure rises to overtake income.
There is, as yet, no second law.
Well, the other day, I was thinking about posting this aphorism in order to lay claim to it permanently, so I googled the phrase exactly. I got one hit. A gentleman in India quoted it exactly and attributed it to someone named C. Northcote Parkinson. Mr Parkinson was a British bureaucrat and author who is best known for his formulation "work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion."
Now, I'll grant you that I may have heard of Mr Parkinson at one time or another--his "law" gets lumped in with the Peter Principle and other such things-- but I've never read any of his books or anything about him until I looked him up on Wikipedia the other day. Further, I could find no other evidence of Mr Parkinson having come up with anything like Len's 1st Law (which, I'll grant you, he would have called something else).
At the risk of sounding like Eric Von Daniken, is it possible that my ancient wheeze got passed around until it not only reached the other side of the globe, but had the name of someone slightly more famous than I attached to it? Could be! Could be!
At any rate, I believe it is mine. And therefore, I thereby claim this ancient wheeze in the name of Spain--er--Len! Long live the king!
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Income shuffles along with droopy drawers, inciting repetitious boots to the keister by disgruntled expenditure.
Moody's 3rd law of booty
No matter how large a hard drive you have, you will always manage to fill it up until you reach the point where:
a) use up valuable time backing up stuff to other media to free up hard drive space;
b) bite the bullet and delete files you can't justify hanging on to;
c) get another hard drive and repeat.
(I should have said "where you:" above)
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