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anamorphic96
01-22-2006, 02:30 PM
A buddy of mine who is in film shared this with me. Pretty funny.

1. During all police investigations it will be necessary to visit a strip joint at least once.
2. All beds have special L-shaped top sheets that reach up to armpit level on a women but only to waist level on a man.
3. It's easy for anyone to land a plane providing there is someone in the control tower to talk you down.
4. A man will show no pain while taking the most ferocious beating but will wince when a women tries to clean his wounds.
5. Large loft-style apartments in New York City are well within the price range of most people - whether they are employed or not.
6. Even when driving down a perfectly straight road it is necessary to turn the steering wheel vigorously from left to right every few minutes.
7. At least one of a pair of identical twins is born evil.
8. A detective can only solve a case once he has been suspended from duty.
9. If you decide to start dancing in the street everyone you bump into will know all the steps.
10. Should you decide to defuse a bomb dont't worry which wire to cut. You will always choose the right one.
11. Most laptops are powerful enough to overide the communications system of any invading alien society.
12. Extremely beautiful and intelligent women are likely to become prostitutes or welders.
13. 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 threatining manner until you have knocked out their predecessors.
14. When you turn out the light to go to bed, everything in your room will still be clearly visible, just slightly bluish.
15. Police departments give their officers personality tests to make sure they are deliberately assigned to a partner who is their total opposite.
16. When they are alone, all foreigners prefer to speak english to each other.
17. Radiation causes interesting mutations - not to your future children but to you, right there and then.
18. If you are blonde and pretty. it is possible to become a world expert on nuclear fission at the age of twenty-two.
19. Honest and hard working policemen are traditionally gunned down three days before their retirement.
20. Rather than wasting bullets, megalomaniacs prefer to kill their archenemesis using complicated machinery involving fuses, pulley systems, deadly cases, lasers and man eating sharks which will allow their captives at least 20 minutes to eascape.

L.J.
01-22-2006, 03:43 PM
A buddy of mine who is in film shared this with me. Pretty funny.

1. During all police investigations it will be necessary to visit a strip joint at least once.
2. All beds have special L-shaped top sheets that reach up to armpit level on a women but only to waist level on a man.
3. It's easy for anyone to land a plane providing there is someone in the control tower to talk you down.
4. A man will show no pain while taking the most ferocious beating but will wince when a women tries to clean his wounds.
5. Large loft-style apartments in New York City are well within the price range of most people - whether they are employed or not.
6. Even when driving down a perfectly straight road it is necessary to turn the steering wheel vigorously from left to right every few minutes.
7. At least one of a pair of identical twins is born evil.
8. A detective can only solve a case once he has been suspended from duty.
9. If you decide to start dancing in the street everyone you bump into will know all the steps.
10. Should you decide to defuse a bomb dont't worry which wire to cut. You will always choose the right one.
11. Most laptops are powerful enough to overide the communications system of any invading alien society.
12. Extremely beautiful and intelligent women are likely to become prostitutes or welders.
13. 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 threatining manner until you have knocked out their predecessors.
14. When you turn out the light to go to bed, everything in your room will still be clearly visible, just slightly bluish.
15. Police departments give their officers personality tests to make sure they are deliberately assigned to a partner who is their total opposite.
16. When they are alone, all foreigners prefer to speak english to each other.
17. Radiation causes interesting mutations - not to your future children but to you, right there and then.
18. If you are blonde and pretty. it is possible to become a world expert on nuclear fission at the age of twenty-two.
19. Honest and hard working policemen are traditionally gunned down three days before their retirement.
20. Rather than wasting bullets, megalomaniacs prefer to kill their archenemesis using complicated machinery involving fuses, pulley systems, deadly cases, lasers and man eating sharks which will allow their captives at least 20 minutes to eascape.


That's pretty funny. What about that engine failing to start, in all do or die situations?

paul_pci
01-22-2006, 03:57 PM
That's pretty funny. What about that engine failing to start, in all do or die situations?

See, I find that totally believable because those were all American cars.

shokhead
01-22-2006, 05:26 PM
I learned alot from the Devil in Miss Jones.

Kam
01-22-2006, 07:19 PM
along the same lines is a list that was on McSweeney's:

from: http://www.mcsweeneys.net/links/lists/14PeterW.Suderman.html

Guide to Determine
If You Are in a Jerry Bruckheimer Movie.

BY PETER W. SUDERMAN

- - - -

1. Your girlfriend is a waitress, but could be a model.

2. A bus explodes.

3. A psychopathic millionaire devises an elaborate plan to murder you or someone you know ...

4. ... and you feel compelled to stop it.

5. You are Nicholas Cage.

6. Despite a total lack of training, you are able to shoot and fight with the accuracy and ability of a special-forces soldier.

7. You are a cop or scientist, but could be a model.

8. A building explodes.

9. After capturing you, a terrorist with a foreign accent reveals the details of his plot in a long-winded speech.

10. The light always hits your face in just the right way.

11. You are in a shootout on the streets of a major city ...

12. ... and it involves helicopters and rocket launchers.

13. Everyone around you is a model.

14. Teams of well-trained henchmen are shooting at you, but they all miss.

15. You are engaged in a knockdown-dragout brawl with the leader of a major crime organization ...

16. ... in slow motion.

17. Everything that has not yet exploded explodes.

18. You save the world.

19. Your name is Jack.

Worf101
01-23-2006, 07:56 AM
Things I've learned in movies...

1. The Black guy will always die within the first 10 minutes of any monster/sci fi, horror film...

2. The otherwise sane female lead or female fodder will go into any dark, dank or forsaken place to investigate a noise, armed with only a flashlight.

3. Said flashlight will fail.

4. The Black guy, if he survives past the first 10 minutes, will always nobly sacrifice himself for his remaining white friends...

5. Unlike in real life, movie opposites do attract. Hookers get millionaires to marry them, geeks get hot female models etc...

6. The one black guy in town knows where any criminal activity is going to take place, and is just waiting to tell his cop friends what's shaken.

7. Winning shots go in better in slow motion.

8. It's easier to shoot guns at bad guys in slow motion when diving to the ground.

9. All Columbian Dope Dealers have bad wigs and worse accents.

10. In the movies crime doesn't pay... when in real life we damn sure know different.

11. The countdown always stops with 1 second left on the clock.

12. No matter how many times the hero's shot he/she will survive till the sequel.

13. Kung fu guys can fly!!!

14. In Westerns nobody ever gets saddle sores or butt blisters.

15. In ancient Rome nobodies covered in grime or smells.

16. Everybody in the known universe speaks English.

17. All ancient Civilizations spoke with English Accents.

18. All monsters must do the Tokyo Two Step or the Manahattan Mombo.

19. New York will be destroyed, somehow, some way, some when.

20. Every television series ever made will find it's way on the big screen. Up next "Gumby Goes Wild!" Watch as Gumby and Pokey show the gils in South Beach how much fun they can have with a flexible boy and his big Pony.

Da Worfster

L.J.
01-23-2006, 09:05 AM
And no matter how smart, advanced, above, deceptive, strong, or powerful, all alien attacks on earth are doomed from the start. :D