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Things you wouldn't know without the movies
- During all police investigations, it will be necessary to visit
a strip club at least once.
- When they are alone, all foreigners prefer to speak English
to each other.
- If being chased through town, you can usually take cover in
a passing St. Patrick's Day parade - at any time of year.
- All beds have special L-shaped cover sheets which reach up to
the armpit level on a woman but only to the waist level on the
man lying beside her.
- The Chief of Police will almost always suspend his star detective
- or give him 48 hours to finish the job.
- All grocery bags contain at least one stick of French Bread.
- The ventilation system of any building is the perfect hiding
place - no one will ever think of looking for you in there and
you can travel to any other part of the building undetected.
- Police departments give their officers personality tests to
make sure they are deliberately assigned to a partner who is their
polar opposite.
- The Eiffel Tower can be seen from any window in Paris.
- All bombs are fitted with electronic timing devices with large
red readouts so you know exactly when they are going to go off.
- If you need to reload your gun, you will always have more ammunition,
even if you haven't been carrying any before now.
- You are very likely to survive any battle in any war unless
you make the mistake of showing someone a picture of your sweetheart
back home.
- Should you wish to pass yourself off as a German officer, it
will not be necessary to speak the language - a German accent
will do.
- If your town is threatened by an imminent natural disaster or
killer beast, the mayor's first concern will be the tourist trade
or his forthcoming art exhibition.
- A man will show no pain while taking the most ferocious beating
but will wince when a woman tries to clean his wounds.
- When paying for a taxi, don't look at your wallet as you take
out a bill - just grab one at random and hand it over. It will
always be the exact fare.
- Kitchens don't have light switches. When entering a kitchen
at night, you should open the fridge door and use that light instead.
- If staying in a haunted house, women should investigate any
strange noises in their most revealing underwear.
- Mothers routinely cook eggs, bacon and waffles for their family
every morning even though their husband and children never have
time to eat it.
- Cars that crash will almost always burst into flames.
- A single match will be sufficient to light up a room the size
of a football stadium.
- Medieval peasants had perfect teeth.
- Any person waking from a nightmare will sit bolt upright and
pant.
- It is not necessary to hello or goodbye when beginning or ending
phone conversations.
- Even when driving down a perfectly straight road, it is necessary
to turn the wheel vigorously from left to right every few moments.
- It is always possible to park directly outside the building
you are visiting.
- A detective can only solve a case once he has been suspended
from duty.
- It does not matter if you are heavily outnumbered in a fight
involving martial arts - your enemies will patiently attack you
one by one by dancing around in a threatening manner until you
have knocked out their predecessors.
- When a person is knocked unconscious by a blow to the head,
they will never suffer a concussion or brain damage.
- No-one ever involved in a car chase, hijacking, explosion, volcanic
eruption or alien invasion will ever go into shock.
- Once applied, lipstick will never rub off - even while scuba
diving.
- You can always find a chainsaw when you need one.
- Any lock can be picked by a credit card or a paper clip in seconds
- unless it's the door to a burning building with a child trapped
inside.
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