OT. Things we could only learn from the movies......

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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. One of a pair of identical twins is always 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, and then depart without witnessing the cruel and diabolical demise which will allow their captives at least 20 minutes to escape.

10. During all police investigations, it will be necessary to visit a strip club at least once.

11. All beds have special L-shaped cover sheets that reach up to the armpit level on a woman but only to waist level on the man lying beside her.

12. All grocery shopping bags contain at least one stick of French bread.

13. It's easy for anyone to land a plane providing there is someone in the control tower to talk you down.

14. Once applied, lipstick will never rub off-even while scuba diving.

15. In war it is impossible to die unless you make the mistake of showing someone a picture of your sweetheart back home.

16. 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. (It used to be an English accent for the German).

17. The Eiffel Tower can be seen from any window in Paris.

18. A man will show no pain while taking the most ferocious beating but will wince when a woman tries to clean his wounds.

19. If a large pane of glass is visible, someone will be thrown through it before long.

20. If staying in a haunted house, women should investigate any strange noises alone in their most revealing underwear.

21. Word processors never display a cursor on screen but will always say: Enter ... Password Now.

22. Even when driving down a perfectly straight road, it is necessary to turn the steering wheel vigorously from left to right every few moments.

23. All bombs are fitted with electronic timing devices with large red readouts so you know exactly when they're going to go off.

24. A detective can only solve a case once he has been suspended from duty.

25. If you decide to start dancing in the street, everyone you meet will know all the steps.

26. Police departments give their officers personality tests to make sure they are deliberately assigned a partner who is their total opposite.

27. When they are alone, all foreign military officers prefer to speak to each other in English.

-- Jay Urban (jayho99@aol.com), November 11, 1999

Answers

28. Feelings and emotions are superior to logical deduction.

29. Young children are morally and intellectually superior to adults.

30. Civilian gun owners are either evil, crazy or, at best, rather obtuse.

31. Clergymen are hypocrites, con-artists or lunatics.

-- Not Whistlin' Dixie (not_whistlin_dixie@yahoo.com), November 11, 1999.


32. (Unless there is a series that allows a continued story), The Good guys always win in the end.

-- Living in (the@real.world), November 11, 1999.

34. Films that deal with tobacco company insiders who expose the lying scum at the helm of the tabacco industry will parallel the fate of Y2K conspiracy theorists who have attempted - in vain - to expose the lying scum who have to date controlled the spin of the Y2K debacle. In both stories, reality is certain death for millions.

- the truth will prevail.

- good lu

-- -the Y2K insider (dieinsiderscum@filmasreality.com), November 11, 1999.


33. The axe-murderer or slavering jawed monster will always pick the "bad" girls. Stay close to the Virgin (there's always at least one).

-- chairborne commando (what-me-worry@armageddon.com), November 11, 1999.

You left out that ones car can successfully pass through any obstacle including brick walls. One merely pulls ahead with the rear end facing the obstacle and then hits the gas pedal with the vehicle in reverse.

-- Paula (chowbabe@pacbell.net), November 11, 1999.


34. The Pentagon can only be seen from a helicopter.

35. Luxury cars can only be driven on wet city streets.

JJ

-- Jeremiah Jetson (laterthan@uthink.y2k), November 11, 1999.


Disabled people are always more virtuous & good than the able-bodied. Particularly, blind people are always more perceptive ("he sees more clearly than those who have eyes," etc. etc.).

-- seen (too@many.movies), November 11, 1999.

And wouldn't it be nice if we had the music to warn us in real life?

:-)

-- winter wondering (winterwondering@yahoo.com), November 11, 1999.


winter wondering,

Glad you're back. Your handle grows more apt by the day.

-- silver ion (ag3@interlog.com), November 12, 1999.


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