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We believed in family planning, but, as poet Robert Burns noted in his rustic dialect: “The best-laid schemes o’ mice an’ men gang aft agley.”

Our schemes were wonderfully — but exhaustingly — agley.

A classic example is the poetry of Robert Burns, who wrote “The best laid schemes o’ mice an’ men/ Gang aft agley.”

But the best-laid plans of aardvarks and astrophysicists oft go agley.

An attempt to pull the magnets out with pliers also went agley when the tool itself became magnetized, leading to some spooky nose action at a rather small distance—think of a diminutive metal wand with a sole magic power: the ability to move your nose around from an inch away.