Ebook: Sod's law: why life always lands butter side down

Cover; SOD'S LAW; Copyright; Dedication; Epigraph; Introduction; A Note on Sources; THE PROFESSIONALS; SOD ON THE ROAD; THE COURSE OF TRUE LOVE; SOD'S WAR; OUT FOR A DUCK; SOD AND GOD; SOD AND PLOD; THE ART OF LOSING; SODDING POLITICS, SODDING POLITICIANS, AND SODDING PUBLIC LIFE; THE QUEST FOR KNOWLEDGE; ODDS AND SODS.;To every explorer with his map upside down, to every air-traffic controller suddenly receiving Magic FM through his headphones, to every astronomer whose new planet turns out to be a bit of bran-flake on the eyepiece of his telescope, Sod's Law says: you are not alone. Sam Leith tells the hilarious - and painful - stories of the unsinkable boat that sunk, the unbeatable horse that lost, and the fireproof theatre that burned to the ground. Sod's Law demonstrates that the entire universe is actually set up to ensure that your toast always lands butter side down and, what's more, that i.