text: I think purplegirl is confusing Brown's Law with Brownean Motion.\n\nBrown'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:\n\nhttp://www.singforall.com/murphy.htm\n\nBrown's Law: If the shoe fits, it's really ugly.\n\nHere are some other variants I found:\n(Jerry) Brown's Law: \nToo often I find that the volume of paper expands to fill the available briefcases. \n(Sam) Brown's Law: \nNever offend people with style when you can offend them with substance. \n(Tony) Brown's Law of Business Success: \nOur customer's paperwork is profit. Our own paperwork is loss. \n(from http://www.titeu.com/murphy/mlb.shtml)