Sod’s Law

This is a relatively recent synonym for the so-called Murphy’s Law. Sod’s Law is first cited in Britain during the late 1960s. Murphy’s Law, of course, states “If anything can go wrong, it will” and when this happens people are wont to say, “Sod it.” In October 1970, The New Statesman carried this little piece, “Sod’s Law: the force in nature that causes it to rain mostly at weekends, which makes you get flu when you are on holiday, and which makes the phone ring just as you’ve got into the bath.” This was written of course before the advent of mobile phones.