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> From: Suzanne Gauthier
> Sent: Friday, December 03, 1999 1:33 PM
> To: Daniel Thompson
> Subject: FW: Things you learn from the movies
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> Suzanne
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Cheryl Bozynski [mailto:cbozynski@gbc.ca]
> Sent: Thursday, December 02, 1999 3:11 PM
> To: Suzanne Gauthier
> Subject: Fw: Things you learn from the movies
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> Subject: Fw: Things you learn from the movies
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> Things You Learn From the Movies:
>
> 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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