Posted on 09/29/2001 10:47:10 AM PDT by Cagey
1. Large, loft-style apartments in New York City are well within the price range of most people--whether they are employed or not.
2. At least one of a pair of identical twins is born evil.
3. Should you decide to defuse a bomb, don't worry which wire to cut. You will always choose the right one.
4. Most laptop computers are powerful enough to override the communications system of any invading alien society.
5. It does not matter if you are heavily outnumbered in a fight involving martial arts: your enemies will wait patiently to attack you one by one by dancing around in a threatening manner until you have knocked out their predecessors.
6. When you turn out the light to go to bed, everything in your bedroom will still be clearly visible, just slightly bluish.
7. If you are blonde and pretty, it is possible to become a world expert on nuclear fission at the age of 22.
8. Honest and hard-working policemen are traditionally gunned down three days before their retirement.
9. Rather than wasting bullets, megalomaniacs prefer to kill their arch-enemies using complicated machinery involving fuses, pulley systems, deadly gasses, lasers and man-eating sharks, which will allow their captives at least 20 minutes to escape.
10. All beds have special L-shaped cover sheets that reach the armpit level on a woman, but only to waist level on the man lying beside her.
11. All grocery shopping bags contain at least one stick of French bread.
12. It's easy for anyone to land a plane, providing there is someone in the control tower to talk you down.
13. Once applied, lipstick will never rub off--even while scuba diving.
14. You're very likely to survive any battle in any war unless you make the mistake of showing someone a picture of your sweetheart back home.
15. Should you wish to pass yourself off as a German or Russian officer, it will not be necessary to speak the language. A German or Russian accent will do.
16. The Eiffel Tower can be seen from any window in Paris.
17. A man will show no pain while taking the most ferocious beating, but will wince when a woman tries to clean his wounds.
18. If a large pane of glass is visible, someone will be thrown through it before long.
19. If staying in a haunted house, women should investigate any strange noises in their most revealing underwear.
20. Word processors never display a cursor on screen but will always say: "Enter Password Now."
21. Even when driving down a perfectly straight road, it is necessary to turn the steering wheel vigorously from left to right every few moments.
22. All bombs are fitted with electronic timing devices with large red readouts so you know exactly when they're going to go off.
23. A detective can only solve a case once he has been suspended from duty.
24. If you decide to start dancing in the street, everyone you meet will know all the steps.
25. Police departments give their officers personality tests to make sure they are deliberately assigned a partner who is their total opposite.
26. When they are alone, all foreign military officers prefer to speak to each other in English.
A hispanic friend of mine pointed out that in the movies all Mexicans are Jewish.
Don't know if it qualifies as well-written, but did anybody else notice in Terminator 2 we discover that the thinking computer chip that was used as a model for the supercomputer that was destroying mankind and sending Terminators back came from the first Terminator that got sent back? If the guy who invented it stole the idea from the one in the future, where the H*** did the original chip design come from?
Oh man, seriously showing my age here. Back in the way olden days, when telephone numbers had a word prefix, all the phone numbers were KLondike5-????, which, of course, is 555-????. The reason for this is because the 555 exchange is reserved for non-residential customers. Seems people actually call phone numbers given out on movies and TV shows, so film-makers use the 555 exchange to keep residential customers from getting crank phone calls, or calls from fourteen year old boys who think they REALLY gave out Kirsten Dunst's phone number in the movie.
That was a good post explaining about the phone number. Thanks again that was great. I bet you are right too, about people and kids trying to call the numbers. LOL Soooo funny.
Could that be because the majority of the audiences don't want something new, they want something they have seen before (and therefore can understand because someone has explained the plot to 'em!)
But I personally like the gun toting kind of character that brings an arsenol...makes a lot more sense rather than trying to reload with presumably sweaty fingers and typically in scenes with bullets zinging past the ear, in the grey-dark lighting... and is more likely to convince me. I find myself counting shots just because I know Hollywood thinks no one knows how much bullets a clip can hold.
Could that be because the majority of the audiences don't want something new, they want something they have seen before (and therefore can understand because someone has explained the plot to 'em!)
But I personally like the gun toting kind of character that brings an arsenol...makes a lot more sense rather than trying to reload with presumably sweaty fingers and typically in scenes with bullets zinging past the ear, in the grey-dark lighting... and is more likely to convince me. I find myself counting shots just because I know Hollywood thinks no one knows how much bullets a clip can hold.
The thing I always found funny was the black Vulcan on Voyager(?). PC at it's finest.
I bet he is now thinking of getting back into films! LOL
We now need a photo of you holding that Teddy Bear in one hand and the gun in the other. Where's Billie, now that we need her?
Right before someone gets eaten by a monster in a dark house, they get scared by a cat.
Mr.Snow Bunny was working on location downtown Los Angeles and they were shooting from 11 pm till 7 in the morning for a night shot and less traffic.
I was upstairs in our home and heard a noise, it was about 1;30 in the morning. I grabbed my teddybear, got one of the guns and headed down the staircase.
Heart beating so fast I was sure it could be heard at the front door. Then when I got downstairs, it was our dog and cat playing under the piano and they had knocked off a lamp on a nearby table.
I gave them a hug and sat there on the floor laughing and so relieved. LOL
Also, before it was fashionable for men to wear their hair long, all the cowboys had short "white sidewalls" haircuts. Then, all of a sudden, somewhere in the mid-60s, cowboys all wore their hair long.
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