Useful October reading!

[gryphonrhi]

What?  I can't be the only one who will find these useful in writing fic this month and/or next.  So, useful sets of laws, with randomly selected examples.  NB:  Do NOT eat or drink while reading these!  Particularly the last two.

First, Murphy's Laws of Combat: (Four links, to four differing lists; as many as 147 on one, and by theme on another.  Relatively serious.)

• Professional soldiers are predictable; the world is full of dangerous amateurs.
• It's not the one with your name on it; it's the one addressed "to whom it may concern" you've got to think about.
• Field experience is something you don't get until just after you need it.

The Evil Overlord Rules:  (Somewhat serious; you can probably put movie or show/episodes to a lot of these.)

• Shooting is not too good for my enemies.
• One of my advisers will be an average five-year-old child. Any flaws in my plan that he is able to spot will be corrected before implementation.
• If an adviser says to me "My liege, he is but one man. What can one man possibly do?", I will reply "This." and kill the advisor.

Skippy's List (aka 213 Things Skippy Is No Longer Allowed To Do In The US Army):  (Terrifying.  I'm just saying.)

• Not allowed to purchase anyone’s soul on government time.
• Burn pits for classified material are not revel fires - therefore it is wrong to dance naked around them.
• We do not “charge into battle, naked, like the Celts”..

And The Seventy Maxims of Maximally Efficient Mercenaries.  (There aren't 70 yet, but hey.)

• If violence wasn’t your last resort, you failed to resort to enough of it.
• A soft answer turneth away wrath. Once wrath is looking the other way, shoot it in the head.
• If you can see the whites of their eyes, somebody's done something wrong.

With many thanks to
draconis , who set this off by sending me the Shlock Mercenary link.  Have a good time, keep all hands safely on the keyboard because I do NOT recommend eating or drinking while reading those.
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