<P> Sod's law is a name for the axiom that "if something can go wrong, it will", with the further addendum, in British culture, borrowed from Finagle's law, that it will happen at "the worst possible time". This may simply be construed, again in British culture, as "hope for the best, expect the worst". </P> <P> The phrase is seemingly derived, at least in part, from the colloquialism an "unlucky sod"; a term for someone who has had some bad unlucky experience, and is usually used as a sympathetic reference to the person . </P> <P> The term is still used in the United Kingdom, though in North America the eponymous "Murphy's law" is more popular . </P>

Where did the saying sods law come from