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 the 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 archenemies using complicated machinery involving fuses, pulley systems, deadly gasses, lasers, and man-eating sharks, which will allow their captives time to escape.
10) All beds have special L-shaped cover sheets that reach to the armpit level on women, 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 else 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 women 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.
27) A hundred bad guys armed with machine guns can't hit a single good guy armed with only a pistol.
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Mike L. on 8/7/09 at 7:07 PM
When you find an accident victim, you can never call 911, because you must tell someone else to "dial 911."
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Stink Eye Rob on 8/7/09 at 9:55 PM
This is a great list. A+. Creative and infectious too--makes me want to start listing all the cliched/stereotypical crap I've learned from film.
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RT-Ludo on 8/7/09 at 10:10 PM
hilarious... awesome list.
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RT-Steveo on 8/7/09 at 10:25 PM
Freaking awesome list!
Another one to add...
No matter the make, the model or year, a car will never start when trying to escape.
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Stink Eye Rob on 8/7/09 at 11:42 PM
...or the hero/heroine will always drop the keys at least once as the killer approaches, sometimes more--fumbling at the door lock, fiddling at the ignition.
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Christopher on 8/8/09 at 6:42 AM
Yeah and somehow the keys always get way under the car and she get's them just in time.
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Christopher on 8/8/09 at 6:44 AM
This one is my favorite.
8) Honest and hard-working policemen are traditionally gunned down three days before their retirement.
Priceless!!!!
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