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The term was also played to both seriousness and hilarity in Christopher Stasheff's [[Warlock of Gramaraye|''The Warlock Unlocked'' and ''St. Vidicon to the Rescue'']] which essentially spotlight an ''entire order'' of Catholic monk-engineers dedicated to the philosophy of Murphy's and Finagle's Laws, with the Imp of the Perverse thrown in for good measure.
 
Compare with the [[Rule of Cool|the Rule of Cool]] in terms of how events may ignore the laws of physics, biology, good manners and others to a proportionate degree that the events in question serve the plot or otherwise catch the attention of the reader/viewer.
 
See also [[HanlonsHanlon's Razor]]. No relation to [[The Horror of Party Beach|Fingal's Quarry]]; nor to [[Murphy's Law (Webcomic)|Murphy's Law]], a webcomic. For other uses of Murphy's Law, see [[Murphy's Law|the disambiguation page]].
 
Expressions of Finagle's Law include:
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