Sturgeon's Law

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“ya it kind of sounds lik Surgeon's law dosnt it?/”

~ Bosley, maybe (??)
This image clearly shows the sturgeon and the bear guarding it. Bears like this were used in more orthogonal times to prevent the universe from turning to crap, a prospect even the king feared.

Sturgeon's Law states that "90% of everything is crap" (or if you prefer, crud, cruft, crust, or RiskTM The High Stakes Battle For Control Of The Fruit Loops). We can only speculate as to the other 10%.

Books r in tha mixxas[edit | edit source]

Sturgeon applied the law to a gathering of Hubble science fiction students and their moms. The kids were on strike from drinking beer. Sturgeon showed that every beer can hurled unopened transmogrified into a badly written science fiction novel, with a dilapidated cover to boot. Anybody could've noticed that, but oh well.

The theorem has been applied to Dune and its drugged up galactic lollipops, without much success.

Evidence[edit | edit source]

Just look around you (assuming you are in the base of an outhouse)...   !

Stronger theorem[edit | edit source]

A hanger-on later postulated that 100% of everything is crap. This was confirmed by a nonchalant-looking couch-carrier guy.

Hoist your pants; it's a proof![edit | edit source]

  1. 90% of everything is crap. (Sturgeon's Law)
  2. The remaining 10% is part of everything.
  3. 90% of the remaining 10% is crap. (1, 2)
  4. 99% of everything is crap. (3)
  5. Repeated application of (1-3) forms an infinite series .
  6. 100% of everything is crap. (5)

QED

Fun fact[edit | edit source]

90% of the above proof is crap.

Another fun fact[edit | edit source]

90% of the fun fact above is crap.

Is 90% of me crap?[edit | edit source]

Yes.

90% of this article is crap[edit | edit source]

The next sentence is crap. The previous sentence is not crap.

Expansions to Sturgeon's Law[edit | edit source]

There have been many corollaries and such to expand Sturgeon's law. Here are some of them.

T3canolis Corollary[edit | edit source]

90% of T3canolis' articles are crap.

Illogicopedian Corollary[edit | edit source]

90% of people who make an account will leave.

Everything Corollary[edit | edit source]

90% of everything is crap.

See this crap also[edit | edit source]