Intermède

Parce qu'on le vaut bien !

Une fois n'est pas coutume, je n'y suis pour rien :p

Réunies par des membres d'un célèbre forum français, " les lois de Murphy appliquées aux BJD", dont voici quelques extraits :

Loi de l’avis de passage

"Vous pouvez faire marquer votre adresse, votre étage, votre numéro de téléphone, celui de votre bureau, celui de votre mère, celui de votre médecin traitant, le nom de votre gardienne, demander à la compagnie d'agrafer sur le paquet le portrait robot de ladite gardienne, le livreur chronopost ne laissera pas son avis de passage et ne vous téléphonera pas au moment de vous livrer."

Règle de l'expert photographique

"La photo sur laquelle tout le monde vous complimente est un total accident. Toutes les autres, minutieusement cadrées et réfléchies seront ignorées."

Théorème du plongeon en chaîne

"Lors des photos de groupe, si vous suivez la logique imparable de commencer par poser les BJD récalcitrantes (voir Loi de l'équilibre incertain), ce sera la dernière (celle dont vous vantez la posabilité), posée à côté des autres dolls qui aura l'effet domino. Comme pour la loi de l'équilibre incertain, elle attendra que vous vous soyez éloigné pour prendre la photo avant de s'effondrer sur les autres."

Loi universelle de la cacahuète maudite

"Si un sourire condescendant vous vient en entendant une nouvelle venue assurer à qui veut bien l'entendre qu'elle n'achètera qu'une BJD et argumentant sur le côté phagocytaire de temps d'argent et de place de ce hobby, n'oubliez pas qu'il y a six mois, vous aviez mot pour mot le même discours. Vous savez, juste avant que vous n'entamiez la création d'une équipe de foot en résine..."

Retrouvez l'intégralité des lois de Murphy en cliquant sur ce lien !

EDIT :

Et la version intégrale pour Fashion Doll Collectionners (copié collé, je n'ai rien inventé ^^) :

-The Murphy's Laws of Doll Collecting :

-Just as you finally complete your doll collection, an entire new line will come out.

Corollary:
You will discover an exclusive or otherwise rare edition that is extremely expensive, if it can be obtained at all.

-Your grail will go on sale for an unbelievably low price after you have paid top dollar to buy this rare beauty from another collector or eBay.

Corollaries:
1. Dolls, outfits, or accessories go on sale for half price a week after you have paid full price for them.

2. You will buy your desired doll, accessory or outfit for an outrageous price on Evil Bay, only to find out, after you have already paid for it, that someone on one of the boards or forums or groups you belong to is willing to trade or sell it for a fraction of what you paid for it.

-Sales always occur between paychecks.

-There is always one more doll.

-Just as you have impoverished yourself until the next pay period buying dolls, another great and hard to find doll always comes up for sale.

-Alison's Axiom:
Being “good” at a doll show or convention is impossible, no matter what you tell yourself.

*Irrefutable Law of Pets and Dolls:

-The amount of attraction pets have to dolls are directly influenced by the following factors:

1. The cost of the doll.
2. The cost of the costume.
3. The fragility of the materials used to make the doll or the costume.
4. The rarity of the doll – a one of a kind, antique or extremely hard to find doll are completely irresistible to doll-targeting instincts.
5. Feathers on a doll costume look nice, but are irresistible to cats.

-The world is a cat's plaything. Especially your doll collection.

-Fur is magnetically attracted to dolls and doll clothes, and will get into doll rooms or cabinets, even those which the pet has no access.

-No matter how mellow your pet is, he or she will go ballistic when you set your doll up for a cute picture next to him or her.

-The most expensive or fragile of your dolls will take a header from her place on the shelf whenever a pet ambles by; whether this be by a cat walking along the shelf, or a dog galumphing by in such a way as to be registered by the Richter scales of the US Geological Survey

*Doll Company Observations:

-Doll company promo pictures are rarely accurate.

Corollaries:
1. The doll company pictures bear little resemblance to the production dolls.
2. The doll that looks the worst in the promo pictures actually looks really good in real life.
3. By the time the ace photographer on a board or forum posts a really good real life picture of a doll you passed up, you will either be broke or the doll will be sold out.
4. Buying a doll “on faith” is usually an expensive mistake.
5. A doll or doll line you really love will be discontinued either due to retirement, loss of license, or lawsuit as soon as you get a good job that will enable you to buy the dolls of choice.

*General Observations:

-By the time you have gotten your dolls set up for a group photo, it will be discovered that the lighting is all wrong.

-Camera batteries always die after the stores close.

-You take great pictures, only to discover one of your dolls is indecently exposing herself after you post the pictures.

Corollary:
Naturally, this will be caught and commented on by the biggest wisenheimer on the board or forum before you get a chance to pull the picture.

-Blue’s Concrete Walkway Maxim:
The chances that a doll will fall over after laboriously setting him or her up for an elaborate picture is directly proportional to the surface the doll can fall on and damage him or her self.

-The Static Fairy enjoys elaborate hairstyles.

Corollary:
The Wind Fairy is as fond of doll hair sabotage as her indoor cousin, the Static Fairy.

-There is always another flyaway hair.

-Your favorite doll shoes and earrings only get lost one at a time.

-A prop, shoe, or piece of jewelry will always bounce in such a way as to have a perfect trajectory for the most inaccessible part of the room, between the cracks of a porch, or into the grate of a street drain.

-You will always have family or friends who wonder why you waste so much money on these “toys.”

-Safety pins are a doll outfit’s best friends.

-Favorite outfits, shoes or accessories will be the first to fall apart in your hands.

-Pieces of doll outfits will always disappear from the outfit storage area between uses, only to reappear when you have given up hope of ever seeing it again. Usually after you purchase a whole new outfit."