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26 Things the Movies have taught us (Thread Two)
a friend | 9-29-2001

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.


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To: Cagey
For some reason, shooting a handgun sideways is accurate.
For some reason, a girl that never fires or practices with a handgun can pick one up and place a bullet right between the bad guys eyes.
21 posted on 09/29/2001 11:25:58 AM PDT by Brett66
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To: Cagey
A woman pursued by a monster or other undesirable will always fall down while running away.
22 posted on 09/29/2001 11:32:11 AM PDT by Justice
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To: RandallFlagg
Christians are always paranoid, neo-nazis; Priests are always sex fiends; It's possible to get kicked in the head 50 times without passing out; A bad guy with a machine-gun can never hit the broad side of a barn but a good guy with a revolver can hit a moving taraget at 100 yards
23 posted on 09/29/2001 11:33:19 AM PDT by Grim
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To: #3Fan
All towns in the old West consisted of one street with just stores and places of business. Old West towns did not have residential areas.
24 posted on 09/29/2001 11:34:40 AM PDT by #3Fan
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To: Cagey
When someone is being chased and is Running on the roof's of old buildings and jumping across to the next, the 2nd guy will land short and manage to grasp the ledge while his cohorts shoot at the fleeing man who gets away! (It does not matter if it is the good or the bad guy being chased!)
25 posted on 09/29/2001 11:35:19 AM PDT by Mad Dawgg
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To: Cagey
Cars that make a fifty foot jump slam down on the ground with no damage. After hitting the ground, they can speed along at 100+ MPH.

Cars that are being chased can speed through busy intersections barely missing other cars going through.

Only cars behind the car being chased get hit by other cars.

The car being chased knows the perfect route to take to elude capture, there's never any traffic jams, never any sidewalks that aren't big enough to accomadate a speeding car.

Cars always explode.

Cars always launch into the air when they hit a car hard enough.

26 posted on 09/29/2001 11:37:22 AM PDT by Brett66
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To: Cagey
And don't forget...

When a bad guy with a gun gets the drop on a good guy, he always wastes several minutes explaining how he done it before trying to actually shoot the good guy.

People never walk to a door and keep going out -- they always pause and turn at the door to make a final, pithy comment.

27 posted on 09/29/2001 11:37:45 AM PDT by rdww
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To: Rocko
When the bad guys empty their guns at Superman to no effect, they throw it at him, and he ducks.
28 posted on 09/29/2001 11:39:12 AM PDT by Storm Orphan
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To: Cagey
All criminal masterminds and spies choose a very public place to discuss their top secret diabolical plans like in a library or a Museum. And no matter how much they keep their voices lowered, their voices loudly echo and bounce off the walls of the cavernous rooms all the while ordinary everyday tourists walk right by them.
29 posted on 09/29/2001 11:40:14 AM PDT by lowbridge
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To: Cagey
All men of God are phony hypocrites.
All new age gurus are enlightened.
30 posted on 09/29/2001 11:41:17 AM PDT by Brett66
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To: Cagey
Corrollary to post#21 on thread one:

Most folks with Southern accents are evil. Or dimwits. Or both. Religious southerners are especially heinous.

31 posted on 09/29/2001 11:43:28 AM PDT by maxwell
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To: Cagey
All French and German characters speak with BRITISH accents!
32 posted on 09/29/2001 11:44:30 AM PDT by what's up
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To: 11th Earl of Mar
Strange noises in their underwear? Like right before they crap their pants?

BWAAAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!

33 posted on 09/29/2001 11:44:39 AM PDT by maxwell
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To: Grim
All blind people can beat the living s*it outta anyone.
34 posted on 09/29/2001 11:45:25 AM PDT by RandallFlagg
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To: Cagey
On the Dukes of Hazard tv show there is a mysterious group of men know as the "Ramp" builders! They run around Hazard county building ramps everywhere... Behind stacks of hay, on the banks of creeks, at construction sites, etc. Yet no one has seen them in action! (off topic observation: those Daisy Duke shorts were well worth the half hour of boring car chases!)
35 posted on 09/29/2001 11:46:33 AM PDT by Mad Dawgg
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To: RandallFlagg
Every futuristic spaceship never has a toilet. AND, Nobody ever needs to use one.

Just like the Starship Brady Bunch.

36 posted on 09/29/2001 11:47:59 AM PDT by lowbridge
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To: lowbridge
All people who get knocked out in a fight will wake up when the guy that knocked them out isn't looking.
37 posted on 09/29/2001 11:50:29 AM PDT by #3Fan
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To: Cagey
Rushing the Hero and head-butting him always causes him to drop the gun. Likewise, smacking the gun with a backhand causes it to fly from the Hero's hand across the room.

Try that (holding a wrench or something) with a friend sometime. Let me know when the doc says you get your cast off.

38 posted on 09/29/2001 11:50:33 AM PDT by Riley
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To: Cagey
No matter how advanced the technology on the various Star Treks, they'll never grasp the concept of seatbelts.
39 posted on 09/29/2001 11:53:46 AM PDT by Jaxter
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To: Cagey
When one is wearing either a Chinese long robe or a ninja suit, by simply raising their arms and jumping, they are able to magically fly 35-75 feet in the air. Also, while wearing these items, it's illegal to kick them in the nuts.
40 posted on 09/29/2001 11:54:32 AM PDT by RandallFlagg
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